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Discover LudwigThe phrase "false confession" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is used to refer to a confession that is untrue and not based on facts. For example, "The suspect was coerced into making a false confession."
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I never, ever took a false confession".
Mr. Warney's false confession was not the product of misconduct.
The tactic more than tripled the rate of false confession.
An interrogator can still extract a false confession under duress.
This is blackmail and may result in a false confession".
Aamer says he signed a false confession after being tortured.
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They were forced to sign false confessions but even after they confessed, many said, torture persisted.
To David K. Shipler's commendable compendium of reforms intended to curtail false confessions ("Why Do Innocent People Confess?," Sunday Review, Feb. 26), I would add another: permitting expert testimony on the science of false confessions at trial.
False confessions happen.
Force often yields false confessions.
False confessions are not unheard of.
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