The opinion said that in September 2000, "the government came forward to confess errors in 75 FISA applications related to major terrorist attacks directed against the United States -- the errors related to misstatements and omissions of material facts".
His Thoughts Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon (1801), sought dispassionately to answer his critics and to confess errors which he now recognized — and which had already been acknowledged both in the revisions to the later editions of his Enquiry, and in his comments in St. Leon.
Mr. Elman urged the Solicitor General, Philip Perlman, to tell the Supreme Court that the dining car segregation was indefensible -- to confess error, as lawyers say.
She was convinced that Dugan was the murderer and that Burris's office should "confess error" — the legal term used by a prosecutor to acknowledge a miscarriage of justice.
"It helped me personally to be a better person, to be constantly judged and condemned and torn apart, then to have to confess error and be publicly humiliated and all that," he said.
But when the solicitor general prevails on grounds that he considers unjust (for example, when evidence supporting a criminal verdict is slight), he may "confess error" and recommend that the Supreme Court overturn the decision.
Others suggest requiring mediation, or granting doctors presumptive protection in malpractice lawsuits if they have followed recommended clinical practice guidelines, or encouraging doctors to confess error promptly, apologize to patients forthrightly, and offer them fair compensation for their injuries.
If the panic establishment can confess error on saccharin, there may yet be a glimmer of hope for silicone, power lines, dioxin and tomorrow's terror du jour, whatever it may be.
I now confess error in that earlier assessment.
As pleased as one has to be with the Pope's willingness to confess error, as it were, one cannot help but feel a touch of sadness that notwithstanding its distress over the Irish scandal.
Using one of those lovely obscurities of the law, the State argued that Haley's claim was "procedurally defaulted" -- which is another way of sticking your tongue out and screaming "Hah-hah, too late!" "Is there some rule that you can't confess error in your state?" Haley was ultimately released after serving six years.
