Citations:nonconfession

English citations of nonconfession

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• 1868, James Kirby, editor, The Canada Law Journal: A Magazine of Jurisprudence‎^[1], J. Lovell, page 100:

  A confession does not strengthen the verdict, nor does nonconfession weaken it.

• 1871, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “Individual Sin Laid on Jesus”, in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit‎^[2], Passmore & Alabaster, page 207:

  Vain is the man who refuses to confess this, for his hypocrisy or his pride, whichever may be the cause of such a nonconfession, proves that he is not one of God's chosen, for the chosen of unanimously, mournfully, but heartily take up this cry, "All we like sheep have gone astray."

• 1967, Current Biography Yearbook‎^[3], H.W. Wilson Company, →LCCN, page 446:

  Voznesensky's reply is referred to by Peter Young as "a classic in any anthology of famous nonconfessions."

• 1967, United States, District of Columbia, Congress, House, Anticrime Legislation‎^[4], page 207:

  The effect of this has been to make prosecution rely upon nonconfession evidence wherever possible and the District of Columbia, different from other jurisdictions, had a period of adjustment to Miranda by reason of our own practices here in the pre-Miranda period.

• 1994, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct‎^[5], W. Morrow and Co., →ISBN, page 57:

  The verb to be is a particular source of illogic, because it identifies individuals with abstractions, as in Mary is a woman, and licenses evasions of responsibility, like Ronald Reagon's famous nonconfession Mistakes were made.

• 1995, Kurt Baier, “Book 1: Society-Anchored Reasons”, in The Rational and the Moral Order‎^[6], Open Court Publishing, →ISBN, Sen's Version of Increased Altruism, page 176:

  Traditionally, it is assumed that the prisoners prefer one of the two strategies open to them, confession or nonconfession, not on account of anything intrinsic to confession or nonconfession itself, but solely on the outcomes they produce, in this case different prison sentences.

• 2000, Cary J. Nederman, “Marsiglian Communal Functionalism”, in Worlds of Difference‎^[7], →ISBN, page 84:

  Such a view may profitably be contrasted with the seventeenth-century theories of John Locke and Pierre Bayle, for whom toleration was to be extended to a far more constrained range of confessions (or nonconfessions).