false confession

collocation in English

meaningsoffalseandconfession

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false
adjective
uk
/fɒls/us
/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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confession
noun[C or U]
uk
/kənˈfeʃ.ən/us
/kənˈfeʃ.ən/
the act of admitting that you have done something wrong ...
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(Definition offalseandconfessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffalse confession

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It can hardly be doubted that if he had been advised by a solicitor he would not have signed afalseconfession.
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One cannot view too highly the danger of a young person making afalseconfession.
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Trial delay is so great thatfalseconfessionis often the short way to release.
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In fact, it would be the odd, unusual, abnormal person who didn't make afalseconfessionunder such an extreme degree of pressure.
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Afalseconfessionseems a very likely risk.
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Let us suppose that they have put in afalseconfession.
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The client's defence may well be that afalseconfessionwas wrested from him or that something was planted on him by the police.
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In court cases, researchers found that that was the most common type offalseconfession.
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Liebowitz in order to force him to sign afalseconfession.
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She said that under these pressures, she had made afalseconfession, which she later recanted while still in custody.
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The press coverage of thefalseconfessionlater was described as a media frenzy.
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He and his supporters insist that the police forced him to make afalseconfessionby isolating and threatening him for almost a month.
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After failing to sign a document detailing afalseconfession, she is taken to the prison shower block and locked into a small cage between the floors.
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Cheng endured six-and-a-half years of squalid and inhumane conditions in prison, while refusing to give anyfalseconfession.
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On the other hand, the partner that is suffering may give up and give afalseconfession, which in turn most likely will provoke rage in the jealous individual.
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Gynecia's trial goes quickly because she, overcome by grief, wants to die as quickly as possible, and gives afalseconfessionof intentionally poisoning her husband and sovereign.
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From the newspaper reports it does not appear that the false confessions were extorted by the police, who moreover did not act upon them.
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It is that suspension that has given rise to many of these false confessions.
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That is why it is of prime importance that we should consider every possible way in which we can avoid these false confessions being made.
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Convictions should be based more on evidence, because false confessions are not just the preserve of the vulnerable and inarticulate.
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