He wasn't trying to confess anything.
He tried to confess to 63 murders.
On our last afternoon, in Seattle, I tried to confess a lot of things I'd always kept secret from her.
His story seemed to be so preposterous that when he tried to confess all to the security services at the end of the 1970s, he was dismissed as a fantasist.
Abigail is tormented by her actions, and she eventually tries to confess to her grandmother, whom she calls, in the Greek style, Yaya — the name that Amy used with her own grandmother.
"If you were really trying to confess, why would you have these blatant errors?" Gail Starling Marshall asked me one morning in the sunroom of her law office, in a house in the rolling countryside outside Charlottesville.
Abigail is tormented by her actions, and she eventually tries to confess to her grandmother, whom she calls, in the Greek style, Yaya the name that Amy used with her own grandmother.
He stabs a man to death, but, when he tries to confess, nobody pays attention, because the Eds of this world, and especially of Northern California in 1949, do not make natural killers.
Now a cynic might think Mr. Khodorkovsky is trying to confess his way out of jail, especially since his old partner, Platon Lebedev, is about to go on trial, and most of his former supporters -- Russian liberals, Western politicians, partners in his Yukos energy company, fellow oligarchs -- have effectively left him to his fate.
During his trial, Sirhan's lawyers attempted to use a defense of diminished responsibility, while their client tried to confess to the crime and change his plea to guilty on several occasions.
