On 4 July 2007, the Supreme Court of Spain increased Scilingo's prison sentence to 1084 years ( but effective for only 25 years ) and altered the conviction to the specific penalties provided in the current criminal code for the crimes of murder and unlawful detention, but held that these crimes " constitute crimes against humanity according to international law ".

The need to dissolve that failed attempt at interdenominationalism, which had already taken place among the Presbyterians, prompted the first national gathering of Congregationalists since the 1648 synod that produced the Cambridge Platform, a confession of faith similar to the Presbyterians ' Westminster Confession, at Boston in 1865.

After her second confession to judge Dominguez, when Rebeca goes to the cemetery to throw a handful of earth on her husband's coffin, we hear the second piece, Saeta, by Gil Evans, from his Sketches of Spain.

After leading a vagabond life in the south of Spain, he was arrested at Ecija, was brought to Toledo, and was there put to torture with extreme ferocity in order to extort a general confession as to his life during the past months.

They included a confession said to have been inadvertently included on a computer disk that was given to the press, which McVeigh believed seriously compromised his chances of getting a fair trial.

Brundidge not only used her arrest and subsequent public press conference as an excuse to renege on the " exclusive interview " deal and nullify any payment, but also tried to sell his transcript of the interview as Iva's " confession ".

Margaret told her story of the origins of the mysterious " rappings " in a signed confession given to the press and published in New York World, October 21, 1888.

The main issue however which forms the basis of the miscarriage of justice claim is that the jury were not told that the points of detail included in the confession had all been published in the national press on the day Stone was alleged to have confessed.

The official Soviet press carried the detailed " confession " of Maglakelidze in which he denounced the Caucasian émigré leaders as the United States and British intelligence agents and expressed his " sincere repentance for the crimes he had committed against the motherland ".

After disproving several charges against him ( one observer noted that he proceeded to demolish or rather showed he could very easily demolish the whole case ) and saying that " the confession of accused is not essential.

The scriptwriter used Anne's final confession of her sins ( a burden that Archbishop Thomas Cranmer would have to bear to the end of his days ), to suggest her total innocence on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.

The three Klansmen were arrested and charged by the state with the murder, but in each case, despite overwhelming evidence and, in Jones's case, a confession, either the charges were dismissed or the defendants were acquitted by all-white juries.

On the first day of trial, Krestinsky caused a sensation when he repudiated his written confession and pled not guilty to all the charges.

He later recanted this confession and was acquitted of all charges at trial by jury.

The charges became public when Theodore Tilton told Elizabeth Cady Stanton of his wife's confession.

Marswell tries to warn the husband, but then a bull gorilla charges, forcing him to shoot the beast, cutting off his confession.

His pastorate was a stormy one: an outspoken group of parishioners opposed his ordination ; in 1751, he was dismissed after charges against his moral character which, according to one biography, " were supported by proof and also by his own confession.

This confession led to charges being brought against six Libyans.

Spyke is cleared of all charges when he catches Quicksilver's arrogant confession on tape.

Ernesto Arturo Miranda ( March 9, 1941 – January 31, 1976 ) a laborer whose conviction on kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery charges based on his confession under police interrogation was set aside in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case ( Miranda v. Arizona ), which ruled that criminal suspects must be informed of their right against self-incrimination and their right to consult with an attorney prior to questioning by police.

Mostly because of the confession, Miranda was convicted of rape and kidnapping and sentenced to 20 to 30 years on both charges.

Flynt believes Franklin's confession, but there have been no charges in the case.

The following year, Sharp's brother, Dr. Leander Sharp, wrote Vindication of the character of the late Col. Solomon P. Sharp to defend him from the charges contained in Beauchamp's confession.

After some months the report appeared, saying that it had looked into the charges that members of the Society had practised an aggressive and offensive form of evangelism ; that individual privacy had been invaded ; that confessions of guilt had been required as a condition of Christian life ; that meetings had been held where mutual confession of intimate sins had been encouraged ; and that emphasis had been placed on confessions of sexual immorality.

To save himself he offered to reveal all he knew about the Jacobite conspiracies ; but his confession was a farce, being confined to charges against some of the leading Whig noblemen, which were damaging, but not conclusive.

The rector asked how he could possibly sign a confession to charges his bishop couldn't even remember ; if that was the choice then he could only choose trial.

However, the confession, which was the only evidence against him, was retracted before the trial.

Under the " Bruton rule ", Misskelley's confession could not be admitted against his co-defendants and thus he was tried separately.

When a union of the evangelicals in upper and lower Germany was contemplated as a means of improved defense against the retaliatory measures of the Roman Catholic Church, George had a meeting with Elector John of Saxony at Schleitz in 1529, where they agreed on certain articles of faith and confession to be drawn up by Luther ; the commission was executed in the seventeen articles of Schwabach on the basis of the fifteen theses of the Marburg Colloquy.

Then came an even more shocking confession: according to the CIA document, al-Faruq said two senior al-Qaeda officials, Abu Zubaydah and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, had ordered him to ' plan large-scale attacks against U. S. interests in Indonesia, Malaysia, ( the ) Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia.

In addition to his inquisitorial duties, every year witnessed the publication of one or more writings against iconoclasm and in defense of the doctrines of the Mass, purgatory, and auricular confession.

* Protection against self-incrimination: Article 38 provides that no one may be compelled to testify against themselves, that confessions obtained under duress are not admissible and that no one may be convicted solely on the basis of their own confession.

He identified Tyrrell as the murderer, acting on Richard's orders, and told the story of Tyrrell's confession, which took place after he had been arrested for treason against Henry VII.

In religious contexts it usually refers to confession to God, ceasing sin against God in order to gain forgiveness or absolution.

Offenses against man require, in addition to confession and sacrifice, restitution in full of whatever has been wrongfully obtained or withheld from one's fellow man, with one-fifth of its value added thereto ( Lev.

After two hours of interrogation by police officers, Miranda signed a confession to the rape charge on forms that included the typed statement " I do hereby swear that I make this statement voluntarily and of my own free will, with no threats, coercion, or promises of immunity, and with full knowledge of my legal rights, understanding any statement I make may be used against me.

" However, at no time was Miranda told of his right to counsel, and he was not advised of his right to remain silent or that his statements would be used against him during the interrogation before being presented with the form on which he was asked to write out the confession he had already given orally.

His third work is the Confessio Amantis, a 30, 000-line poem in octosyllabic English couplets, which makes use of the structure of a Christian confession ( presented allegorically as a confession of sins against Love ) as a narrative frame within which a multitude of individual tales are told.

Yet the record of her trial with Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne holds her giving an energetic confession, speaking before the court of " creatures who inhabit the invisible world ," and " the dark rituals which bind them together in service of Satan ," and implicating both Good and Osborne while asserting that " many other people in the colony were engaged in the devil's conspiracy against the Bay.

Indeed the regular confession of our venial sins helps us form our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit.

In Judaism, confession is an important part of attaining forgiveness for both sins against God and another man.

" In matters involving offenses against a fellow man, private confession to the victim is a requirement to obtaining forgiveness from the victim, which is generally a requirement to obtaining forgiveness from God.

Therefore, on the day after Graham's confession, the Colorado district attorney moved swiftly to prosecute Graham via the simplest possible route: premeditated murder committed against a single victim-his mother, Mrs King.

#* not to be compelled to make any confession or admission that could be used in evidence against that person ;

The assertion that he put forward indulgences as being not only a remission of the temporal punishment of sin, but as a remission of its guilt, is as unfounded as is that other accusation against him, that he sold the forgiveness of sin for money, without even any mention of contrition and confession, or that, for payment, he absolved from sins which might be committed in the future.

In a deathbed confession, Murrell admitted to being guilty of most the crimes charged against him except murder, to which he claimed to be " guiltless.