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R. v. Bonisteel

In recent years the strange phenomenon of the false confession has been gaining a lot of attention. Strange because, after all, who would confess to a crime they didn’t commit? Because of this common sense way of looking at things, the value of a confession as proof of guilt is quite high, and typically a confession will be admitted unless the confessor can make a case for extreme police misbehaviour vitiating voluntariness. That said, people do sometimes “confess” to crimes th read more

Full post as published by Criminal Review on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).