Sentence examples for confessed error from inspiring English sources

When it turned out that this suspicion was based on forged documents, the embarrassed C.I.A. and humiliated White House confessed error.

We discussed Stroud, a case in which a defendant who had been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment obtained a reversal of his conviction and a new trial when the Solicitor General confessed error.

Madigan and Nudelman have confessed error in a few individual cases.

In a second trial held on 28 May 1917, he was also convicted, but received a life sentence, which Stroud appealed, and Solicitor General John W. Davis "confessed error" because he wanted Stroud to receive the death penalty.

In a legal twist, the lawyer for Hawaii, Neal Katyal, was acting solicitor general in the Obama administration when his office formally confessed error in 2011 for the role lawyers for the federal government played in defending the World War II camps.

"Did your office ever consider just confessing error in this case?" she asked.

Enron executives are not the only ones who dislike confessing error.

2018, 56 L.Ed.2d 619781978), decided just last Term, the Court was willing to go beyond confessing error in previous dicta.

In confessing error, the Government seemed to concede that reversal was appropriate without any specific showing of prejudice.

I suggested that Delaware law could be repositioned without requiring the Delaware Supreme Court to confess error by allowing shareholder adopted bylaws that repeal or amend poison pills.

Justice Elena Kagan asked the lawyer if the office had considered confessing error in the case, rather than fighting the defendant's appeal.