Sentence examples for confession cases from inspiring English sources

Many of the juvenile confession cases date back to the height of the Troubles, particularly the mid and late 1970s.

In Cook County's juvenile false confession cases, police officers and prosecutors have taken confession contamination to a new level.

Law professors who have studied false confession cases, including me, have suggested that contamination is inadvertent, the result of sloppy police interrogation practices like using leading questions, showing suspects crime scene photos, or taking them to visit crime scenes.

Defending a false confession case requires an expert to explain to the jury the who, how, when, where and why of police pressure and vulnerable defendants.

This same cartoon-watching callousness appeared again a year or so later in August 1998 in perhaps Chicago's most infamous juvenile false confession case.

And in Thomas, unlike Aveni, Tankleff, and the cases of the Central Park Five, the Court will, for the first time, get to decide a confession case after viewing Thomas' entire interrogation on DVD -- all nine-plus hours of it.

All this in memory was six years in the past when the news broke of the Terminal Artist's confession (case still open) and sparked a turning back to old memories that had been blurred and tarnished by time and perhaps amplified: the smell of the lavender perfume of the woman who escorted us to our seats.

RONALD L. KUBY New York, Feb. 26, 2012 The writer is a criminal defense lawyer who has litigated false-confession cases.

Over the next decade, he became aware of other false-confession cases, particularly that of the Central Park Five, and decided to take another look.

In this first episode of a new series of 'Picture Perfect', we venture "into the woods" with Welsh photographer Jack Latham to document areas of interest around Iceland's "Reykjavik Confessions" case in which six people confessed to a murder they didn't commit.

"When I got into this business, I figured if there was an eyewitness or a confession, then case closed, the guy absolutely, one hundred per cent did it.