Abhorrence Quote by Earl Warren

Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is…

— Felix Frankfurter

“In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no penalty, it…

— Marcel Proust

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

— Henri Rousseau

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“judges, for many years, have given police officers encouragement and incentives to engage in all sorts of extraordinary deception when they are interviewing criminal…

— James Duane

“if the police do not use deception to persuade you to make an outright confession, they might persuade you to give them a little…

— James Duane

With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it…

— Adam Cohen

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals…

— Earl Warren

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

— Joni Mitchell

Even when a criminal try to confess with too much explanation it shows guilt !!

— Glen Rambharack

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

— Anonymous