Word: duress
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...found at Sollecito's home and a speck of Sollecito's DNA on a bra clasp found six weeks after the crime implicated Sollecito and Knox. Though Knox confessed to being present at the scene during a police interrogation, she later retracted her statement, saying it was induced under duress. But Knox's blithe behavior after the murder--she did cartwheels during questioning and made out with her boyfriend rather than displaying grief--may have aroused enough suspicion to seal her fate...
...remained silent about the charges leveled against him. "I expect he won't say anything during the whole trial," says his lawyer, Günther Maull. And, he adds, even if prosecutors can prove that Demjanjuk was at Sobibor, Maull maintains that he would have been there under duress. (Read "New Trial for Nazi War-Crimes Suspect...
...staffer Afshar, who works in the cultural mission of the French embassy, wept as she explained her role in the postelection unrest, "I physically attended gatherings ... Brothers at the Intelligence Ministry made me understand my mistake." Human-rights activists believe the confessions at these trials have been made under duress. In last week's trial, observers noted that former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi appeared confused and seemed to have lost some 20 lb. during his monthlong incarceration...
Yale's School of Medicine has recruited its second major Harvard faculty member this year as part of an aggressive three-pronged expansion into clinical neuroscience, cancer, and cardiovascular disease research—initiatives sustained despite ongoing financial duress...
California's crazy budget laws make it an extreme case, but that doesn't mean it's alone in financial duress - there are plenty of other states in serious hot water. (See how Americans are spending...