Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules That a Confession

[gloria]

It isn't worrying that they know this is happening and still they allow it? I guess that's what the prosecution would have loved is that Jordan would have done, to confess to a crime he didn't commit even when they surely know he didn't. And they are doing this to Kids? It is really scary to know that every body knows this is happen but is let it happen even to kids.

The court notes that the fact that a confession has been deemed voluntary and admissible at trial does not mean that it is true and says, “We need not be reminded of the countless situations where persons confess to crimes of which they are innocent, either out of desire to cover up for the guilty person or because of a psychological urge to do so.”

Of the 266 people who have been exonerated by DNA testing nationwide, 25% involve people who falsely confessed or admitted to crimes.

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[abram]

You really have to wonder if the court is interested in the truth or their appearance? I think their appearance. What is wrong with them?
A five year struggle for such a simple thing to have done – not to mention the cost of trying to avoid it. Thank goodness for the Supreme Court.

[childsvoice]

From Dan Dailey's Blog:

"The State Superior Court waited until the end of the business day Friday to announce its ruling that Judge Motto’s earlier decision denying Jordan’s decertification as a juvenile based on Jordan’s failure to admit to the murders or express remorse did indeed deny Jordan’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The court remanded Jordan Brown’s decertification hearing back to the Lawrence County Common Pleas Court where Judge Dominick Motto will have another chance to get it right. This time he will not be permitted to consider the prosecution’s bogus argument that Jordan is not amenable to rehabilitation because he will not admit to a crime he did not commit or express remorse for alleged actions he never took."

wandervogeldiary.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/a-ruling-at-last/

(I also placed this info under "Case Discussion").