Admissibility of Oral and Written Confessions Law and Legal Definition
An admissible confession may be oral or written, or partly oral and partly written. The fact that a statement is not reduced to writing does not render it inadmissible. An oral confession of a defendant is admissible at trial even though the defendant made a different, written confession, since a written confession does not cancel out a prior oral confession. A written confession need not constitute a literal transcription of what the defendant said, the substance of what s/he said is sufficient.
Legal Definition list
- Admissibility of Judicial Confessions
- Admissibility of Fingerprints
- Admissibility of Extrajudicial Confessions
- Admissibility of Confessions Recorded by Electronic Means
- Admissibility of Blood Tests
- Admissibility of Oral and Written Confessions
- Admissibility of Palm Prints and Bare Footprints
- Admissibility of Unsigned Confessions
- Admissible
- Admissible Evidence
- Admission
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