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Forced Confession

Forced Confession

Broadcast: February 18, 1951
Added: Aug 27 2018

Today's episode tells a story about 'due process of the law', which protects the processes of justice from the corrosion of arbitrary power. Police officials must keep law and enforce order, even when zeal may over balance responsibility for finding the true criminal. In today's case, a forced confession was used to obtain a conviction at trial, and the defendant now petitions that his rights under the clause of the constitution were violated...