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Because 75% to 80% of all convictions for serious crimes are based on presumably voluntary confessions, police and prosecutors have been in a tail spin ever since. And because the Supreme Court has yet to clarify Escobedo with any new decision, some 27 lower courts have groped for the right...
In another search for answers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York, Vermont, Connecticut) last week ordered a review of seven confession cases-by its entire nine-man bench. The Supreme Court itself is likely to wait until next year-when
Christian renewal, the United Presbyterians believe, includes "the right and duty of a living church to restate its faith from time to time." Last week, in Columbus, Ohio, commissioners (delegates) to the church's 177th General Assembly voted 643 to 110 to accept in principle their first new creed...
The "Confession of 1967" - so called because it must be approved by the next two general assemblies and by two-thirds of the nation's 193 presbyteries before acceptance - runs to 4,200 words. The creed, along with seven historic Christian statements of faith,* will constitute a Book of...
Confessions of the Innocent Sir: An untrue inference is contained in TIME'S [April 2] statement, "The fact that mdigents (60% of all criminal defendants) frequently confess out of fear, even though innocent, is among the chief reasons for the court decisions on the right to counsel and the...