Sentence examples for issue of a confession from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sherman's cross-examination of Mr. Littleton began this morning with a focus not on the issue of a confession but on Mr. Littleton's earlier testimony that a group of 15 to 20 lawyers were in the Skakel home on the afternoon of Oct. 31, 1975, the day that Miss Moxley's body was found.

WISCONSIN: State v. Bronston, 7 Wis.2d 627, 97 N.W.2d 504 (issue of trustworthiness of a confession for the jury).

Washington has since revised its rules of practice to provide for a preliminary hearing by the trial court, out of the presence of the jury, on the issue of voluntariness of a confession.

Issues of a coerced confession, evidence tampering, prosecutorial misconduct and inept attorney representation brought public attention to the case, but it still hasn't been resolved.

The judge will allow Mr. Shakur to readdress the issue of the confession he said was fabricated.

"We have no confidence that these people get due process, and in particular the issue of confession is always tricky because of the use of pretrial torture and coercion in China," he said.

At the time he was assigned the case, Kachinsky said he studied the issue of the false confession phenomenon.

It was during the grand jury investigation of the Sept. 11 terror attacks that the issue of the false confession arose.

Since the evidence surrounding the making of a confession bears on its credibility, such evidence is presented to the jury under the orthodox rule not on the issue of voluntariness or competency of the confession, but on the issue of its weight.

"Tears are the beginning of a confession.

The City of Chicago struggled with the issue of coerced confessions for decades and in the 1990s it quietly reopened several controversial brutality cases.