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Self-incrimination
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privilege against self-incrimination
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Confession
gravely incriminating fact, even a conclusively incriminating fact is not of itself a confession. A statement that contains self- exculpatory matter cannot amount to a confession, if the exculpatory statement is of some fact, which if true, … the offence, or at any rate substantially all the facts which constitute the offence. An admission of an incriminating fact, howsoever grave, is not by itself a confession. A statement which contains an exculpatory assertion of some
incriminate
of in a crime [among the evidence that incriminated him was a box of trigger devices] see also self-incrimination in·crim·i·na·tion [in-kri-mə-nā-shən] n in·crim·i·na·to·ry [in-kri-mə-nə-tōr-ē] adj
privilege
: an exemption from liability where an action is deemed to be justifiable (as in the case of self-defense) or because of the requirements of a position or office ;also : the affirmative defense that an action
declaration
person's own interests (as pecuniary or property interests) or may subject that person to liability compare admission, confession, self-incrimination NOTE: A declaration against interest is an exception to the hearsay rule. A statement that is offered to
confession
acknowledging the party's guilt (as by admitting commission of a crime) compare admission declaration against interest at declaration, self-incrimination NOTE: Courts differ on how a confession establishes the accused's guilt; for example, in some jurisdictions the confession
exculpatory no doctrine
in response to a federal investigator's question NOTE: This doctrine is based on the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, and is often used as a defense to a charge of knowingly making a false statement. The doctrine
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