Sentence examples for given confessions from inspiring English sources

But more than 40 others have given confessions since 1976 that DNA evidence later showed were false, according to records compiled by Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.

The group claims that in more than a quarter of cases in which defendants were later exonerated by DNA evidence, they had made incriminating statements, given confessions or pleaded guilty.

"All right-minded people will be angry and disturbed that a freely given confession, by someone of sound mind, taped and witnessed, can no longer be used as evidence in a court of law," he said.

Some people, he said, "gave confessions.

Mr. Gedenidze and his wife gave confessions almost immediately.

Uighur exile groups, however, said that the defendants were tortured into giving confessions and were denied adequate legal representation.

The police lighted up their networks of slum informants and all five were arrested and gave confessions in quick succession.

He said when he was giving confessions on Tuesday evening, he was surprised when a parishioner came in with a phone glowing with the Confession app.

Using torture to coerce suspects into giving confessions– often publicly, and before a trial has begun – is acknowledged as a widespread practice in China.

She said many suspects were tortured or otherwise treated poorly in custody until they gave confessions, which were then used as evidence against them.

But on Sunday, in the latest blow to the integrity of the government's case, an international panel of experts who began examining the disappearances a year ago asserted that five suspects whose testimony underpinned the government's conclusions gave confessions "under torture or cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment".