Student, BA. LLB (HONS) 4th year, Saveetha School Of Law, Saveetha institute of medical & technical
sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai 77,Tamilnadu,India.
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Assistant Professor, Saveetha School Of Law, Saveetha institute of medical & technical sciences, Saveetha
University, Chennai 77, Tamilnadu ,India.
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shivashankar3097@gmail.com ,
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ABSTRACT
There is an exception to the hearsay rule that allows testimony concerning someone
else's confession to be admitted if the statement had a great enough tendency "to expose the
declarant to civil or criminal liability". The theory is that a reasonable person would not make
such a false confession. In U.S. law, a confession must be voluntary in order to be admissible.
Confessions may feature in formal or informal show trials.
A confession is a statement, made by a person or by a group of persons,
acknowledging some personal fact that the person would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden.
The term presumes that the speaker is providing information that he believes the other party
is not already aware of, and is frequently associated with an admission of a moral or legal
wrongNot all confessions reveal wrongdoing, however. For example, a confession of love is
often considered positive both by the confessor and by the recipient of the confession, and is
a common theme in literature. With respect to confessions of wrongdoing, there are several
specific kinds of confessions that have significance beyond the social. A legal
confession involves an admission of some wrongdoing that has legal consequence, while the
concept of confession in religion varies widely across various belief systems, and is usually
more akin to a ritual by which the person acknowledges thoughts or actions
considered sinful or morally wrong within the confines of the confessor's religion. In some
religions, confession takes the form of an oral communication to another person. Socially,
however, the term may refer to admissions that are neither legally nor religiously significant.
KEYWORDS: confession, admission, statement, forcefully, voluntarily, evidentiary value,
inducement