• TheYang@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I… don’t think that’s true.

    I’d expect to get convicted if I make a (reasonable) confession of murdering someone who vanished, even if there is no single other bit of evidence.

    • Kill_John_Lennon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not if you made that confession outside of any prosecution process and then withdrew it saying you were just making shit up, I wouldn’t think.

      • TheYang@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I would expect that to be true as well.
        For some reason I can’t really explain anymore, I was thinking of a situation where the confession is made, and reiterated at every step in the prosecutorial process, without any other evidence (for or against) being available for the process.

    • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      You won’t. It happens all the time. Youd be amazed how many people try to claim credit for crimes they didn’t commit.

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Right, if you go to the police and confess to the murder of someone who vanished you are going to be in trouble. But we are talking about some reddit comments “confessing” to downloading something illegally. I could have been more specific with the example though.