Sentence examples for confessed because of from inspiring English sources

"They said Walter confessed because of us," Mr. Speirs said.

Mr. Jenoff testified that he confessed because of grief and remorse.

Partly, he confessed, because of the Supreme Court's recent ruling that minimum protections under the Geneva Conventions applied to all military prisoners, no matter where they were.

And now you want to confess, because of a compliment.

"Enemies of the people" confess because of torture or a desire to protect families (often killed or exiled anyway); but also, sometimes, out of a conviction that conniving in their own deaths will help the Party.Then there is the carnage and heroism of the war and the wartime hopes of a better life, soon extinguished by yet more famine and repressions.

Recently he told the LA Times Toni had confessed "because she was absolutely terrified of going to hell".

Mr. Jenoff's lawyer, Francis J. Hartman, said his client had confessed because he was overwhelmed by feelings of guilt.

Maybe she confessed because she was pressured.

"There's a real fair argument that the police bullied these people to confess because some of what they said is inconsistent, clearly, with the physical evidence," said James Cohen, a criminal law specialist at Fordham Law School.

He says some of them may have committed parts of the crimes to which they have confessed, but because of the way their confessions were extracted it was impossible to be sure.

He had since maintained that he confessed only because of coercion by detectives.