He does readily acknowledge that he obtained confessions and witnesses that fellow detectives could not.
Even so, Mr. Morsi declared in a televised speech later that night that prosecutors had obtained confessions.
An appeal court quashes Silcott's conviction as new evidence casts doubt on the way police obtained confessions from the men.
CAIRO — Iranian leaders say they have obtained confessions from top reformist officials that they plotted to bring down the government with a "velvet" revolution.
According to a Pakistani official, Pakistani authorities have obtained confessions from members of Lashkar-e-Taiba who said they had been involved in the attacks.
In 2009, prosecutors obtained confessions from the Madoff firm's independent auditor and from Frank DiPascali Jr., Mr. Madoff's longtime deputy and chief lieutenant.
Lon Craft of the Texas Municipal Police Association called the requirement "another attempt for the defense bar to find new ways to object to lawfully obtained confessions".
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities have obtained confessions from members of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba that they were involved in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November that killed more than 160 people, a Pakistani official said.
Mr. Washington was convicted of the 1982 rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman after the police in the northern Virginia town of Culpeper arrested him in the assault of a neighbor and obtained confessions to a series of unsolved homicides.
In an ambitious, if flawed, attempt to secure a modicum of justice, the attorney-general's office has so far obtained confessions by 158 former paramilitaries to 4,300 crimes, and identified some 40,000 victims who are supposed to be compensated.But problems persist.
In fact, the military had obtained confessions from at least two other individuals for the same crime.
