Sentence examples for confessing guilt from inspiring English sources
The judge interrupts him impatiently: "You are confessing guilt but saying you're not guilty".
Confessing guilt at being "insufficiently balanced" in his political views — "I am a Democrat, after all" — Obama insists that "government has an important role in opening up opportunity to all"; he also believes in "the free market, competition and entrepreneurship".
Humans are infinitely good at blaming others and expressing their own emotional hurt (in the dock, Huntley was good at it too, charging his testimony twith bitterness, the sense of being misunderstood) and bad at confessing guilt or feeling moral responsibility.
But it's hard to see how "Ryan did it too" allows Democrats to say that Ryan is throwing granny over a cliff, unless they are confessing guilt to the same crime.
The Supreme Court supplied a reason not to accept a pardon just over 100 years ago, in 1915, writing that a person who accepts such pardon is confessing guilt because a pardon carries an imputation of guilt.
Clare Bracey of Amnesty said: "International standards for fair trial, to which Iran is a state party, guarantee the right not to be forced to incriminate oneself or to confess guilt.
But the enterprise of his publisher Saraband (once of Glasgow, now based in Salford), the wisdom of the 2016 panel – and the quality of His Bloody Project, about a crofter's son bound for the gallows after a triple murder to which he has confessed guilt but not motive – have won Burnet a keen audience for his next move.
55(1)(a): "In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person: (a) Shall not be compelled to incriminate himself or herself or to confess guilt".
This privilege is enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which stipulates that "in the determination of any criminal charge against him, everyone shall be entitled not to be compelled to testify against himself or to confess guilt" (Art. 14(3)(g)).
It is thought that Anne avoided criticising Henry to save Elizabeth and her family from further consequences, but even under such extreme pressure Anne did not confess guilt, and indeed subtly implied her innocence, in her appeal to those who might "meddle of my cause".
