Sentence examples for get confessions from inspiring English sources

A prosecutor said the South Side station that Mr. Burge led had "a dirty little secret" of torturing suspects to get confessions.

Boudreau, the article stated, had "helped to get confessions from more than a dozen defendants in murder cases in which charges were dropped or the defendant was acquitted at trial".

Beatings and torture have long been part of the local detention culture, especially for the intelligence service, which is under pressure to get confessions so that cases can proceed to rapid trials.

False Convictions Plague China's Legal System Recent disclosures of wrongful convictions in China have exposed deep flaws in its judicial system, a system that often answers more to political leaders than to the law and uses torture to get confessions.

Another criminal procedure expert, Chen Weidong of Renmin University, was quoted as saying that officers "will sometimes have the detained suspects, especially new ones, tortured so that they can get confessions and complete an investigation as soon as possible".

A U.S. attorney general once told me: "Look -- we know it's often wrong, but watching that needle jump is scary, and it's our best way for police to get confessions".

I told him about the Inquisition and all the tortures they'd invented for getting confessions.

Here was a Navy reserve lieutenant who had spent the last 25 years as a distinguished detective on the mean streets of Chicago, closing case after case – often due to his knack for getting confessions.

"Law enforcement professionals in this country understand that torture is a wonderful technique for getting confessions from innocent people and a lousy technique for getting truth out of guilty people".

Pembleton gives the confession to Gee, who is conflicted, especially when Pembleton compares it to past police practices of white detectives getting confessions from black suspects no matter what the cost.

Perhaps you can come up with a logic equation in which knowledge of how our enemies elicit false confessions from us equals knowledge of how to get true confessions from our enemies — actually, you really can't.