Sentence examples for elicit confessions from inspiring English sources

He noted that prosecutors and police authorities use sophisticated techniques to elicit confessions.

Mentions the use of torture to elicit confessions from people in custody.

Scores of innocent women have been illegally arrested and tortured in order to elicit confessions and boost prosecution rates.

She adds that another tactic to elicit confessions involves stripping the accused's female relatives and threatening to gang-rape them in front of their loved ones.

The study notes that brutal techniques have been employed on many occasions to elicit confessions from drug traffickers — but also false confessions, from innocent civilians.

Most were eventually produced in court and many have provided sworn accounts, corroborated by doctors, of being tortured to elicit confessions that they were recruiting militants to overthrow Mr. Mugabe or were involved in bombing plots.

Simon Russell Beale stars, as a London taxi-driver with a knack for unwittingly eliciting confessions from his passengers.

The Times report documented numerous instances where jailhouse informants had elicited "confessions" that turned out never to have occurred, in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Mr. Scarcella, 61, was a member of the Brooklyn North Homicide squad who developed a reputation for eliciting confessions when no other detective could.

Direct accusations elicited confessions from innocent and guilty subjects alike, and minimization proved especially effective: when the experimenters told subjects, "You probably didn't realize what a big deal this was," the confession rate among guilty parties increased by about thirty-five per cent.

Similarly harsh methods of eliciting confessions and cooperation may still be in use.