Sentence examples for prior confession from inspiring English sources

The Tutanjai ("Mud and Soot Retreat, or Retreat of Misery") was a ceremony of collective contrition, with the purpose of fending off disease, the punishment of sin, by prior confession; in Chinese civil law, confession resulted in an automatic reduction or suspension of sentence.

At the sentencing hearing, Thomas took the stand and denied that he was guilty, notwithstanding his many prior confessions.

Once in the prosecution center, however, he should say that he was tortured, deny all his prior confessions, and ask that the interrogation be repeated.

He said: "The church has always taught that when a Catholic does something that is gravely wrong they must seek reconciliation with God and the church through confession prior to receiving holy communion.

The shift in the literature from modular to orthomodular lattices that was characterized above is in effect a shift back to von Neumann's earlier position (prior to his confession).

Of more than 300 people exonerated from death row based on DNA evidence, nearly one in four had provided a false confession prior to their sentencing.

The priest will also suggest that you and your fiancée go to confession prior to taking your vows.

Prior to his alleged confession, investigators had been trying to determine whether Abrini was the third bomber in the Brussels airport attack, dubbed "the man in the hat" by the media.

Nevertheless, both federal and state courts look closely at confessions secured during unusually long interrogations prior to arraignment, and it is not uncommon for such confessions to be ruled inadmissible in a criminal trial.

Mr. Morgenthau said yesterday that his interest was to give the public insights into the criminal justice system: "Videotaped confessions are the most significant development prior to DNA.

Like "Shutter Island," "Hugo" (which uses 3-D to plumb corridors as mysterious and forbidding as those in that prior film) is, among other things, something of a cinematic confession, even a wild auto-analysis.