Sentence examples for courts coerced from inspiring English sources

Federal agents made false statements to the press; submitted false affidavits to courts; coerced alleged witness statements; and deliberately withheld critical ballistics reports in order to gain an unfair advantage at trial.

Since Hopt, federal courts have barred coerced and other involuntary confessions either as a matter of federal evidentiary rules or as a matter of upholding defendants' constitutional rights.

"Legacy of Torture" (editorial, Aug. 27) rightly notes that court rulings rejecting coerced evidence may "help repair this country's battered reputation".

Such instructions, the court said, essentially coerced jurors to vote for execution because they might fear that a vote against it would allow for the release of criminals convicted of particularly gruesome murders.

Journalists would be followed, tapped and coerced in court to reveal sources, chilling the flow of information to the taxpaying public.

On Friday Shi filed a suit against Zhang in a Santa Clara county court, asserting that Zhang coerced her into having sex on multiple occasions against her will.

The government's own interrogators didn't believe his "confessions," which the court determined had been coerced and were "entirely incredible".

After the country's constitutional court agreed that the president had been appointed to his first term by parliament rather than directly elected — a decision that an exiled judge from the court later said was coerced — the country broke out in politically motivated violence.

The notion that such detailed confessions might be deemed voluntary because the defendants were not beaten or coerced suggests that courts should not simply look at whether confessions are voluntary, Mr. Neufeld said.

The six signed affidavits disavowing comments made during their courts martial, saying it was coerced by prosecutors and the NCIS.

Douglas also strove to ensure the protection of the constitutional rights of the criminally suspect, and he took a leading part in the court's decisions that curbed coerced confessions, buttressed the accused's right against self-incrimination, and strengthened prohibitions against illegal searches.