Sentence examples for the confessions obtained from inspiring English sources

So how were the confessions obtained?

Despite the original study's conclusion that many of the confessions obtained through use of the "coercive management techniques" were false, the Pentagon based its training on Communist methods that the United States long labeled as torture.

Indeed, the court's ultimate conclusion was that the unwarned confessions obtained in the four cases before the court in Miranda "were obtained from the defendant under circumstances that did not meet constitutional standards for protection of the privilege".

The report said that the government's prohibition of the use of confessions obtained by torture as evidence was also a positive step, but said that the practice hadn't ended.

United Nations human rights officials say the integrity of the judicial system has been tainted, citing the numerous reports of confessions obtained through torture and ill treatment, the weakness of the judiciary and trial procedures that fall far short of international standards.

Amnesty urged the Chinese government to change its criminal procedure law to impose an explicit ban on the use of confessions obtained through torture or ill treatment.

Last month, Human Rights Watch reported that Moroccan courts have convicted Western Saharan activists on the basis of confessions obtained through torture or falsified by police.

The agreement allowed the United States to publicly disavow the confession the crew had signed, admitting the ship's intrusion, apologizing, pledging to cease all future action, and acknowledging the truth of confessions obtained during captivity.

In a separate series of decisions based not on constitutional principles but on the Supreme Court's general power to supervise the federal judicial system, the court held that confessions obtained after "unreasonable delay" in taking suspects to court for arraignment could not be used as evidence in a federal court.

The death sentences relied on confessions obtained under torture, the human rights group said, "using electric shocks, whipping, burning and suspension by the wrists which were handcuffed behind their backs".

Shortly thereafter, in New York v. Quarles (1984), the court approved a "public safety" exception to the Miranda requirements, under which confessions obtained in violation of Miranda are admissible if the police officers' questions were "reasonably prompted by a concern for the public safety".