When terror confessions are put to expert scrutiny
Interesting case from India, written by PEGGY MOHAN
"When I agreed to assist the defence in the Tiffin Bomb Trial in Ahmedabad by analysing confession statements of the accused, my brief was simple: to convince the POTA Court in Ahmedabad that the confessions could not have been obtained the way the police were claiming. I was to refute the police contention that they were verbatim depositions given freely and written down in real time.
Suspects arrested in India often sign confession statements which they later deny in court, saying that they had signed them under duress. But in a POTA case, they cannot. However, there is nothing in the law that stops an expert witness from seeking to discredit confessions."
Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/linguist-in-a-pota-court?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1
Interesting case from India, written by PEGGY MOHAN
"When I agreed to assist the defence in the Tiffin Bomb Trial in Ahmedabad by analysing confession statements of the accused, my brief was simple: to convince the POTA Court in Ahmedabad that the confessions could not have been obtained the way the police were claiming. I was to refute the police contention that they were verbatim depositions given freely and written down in real time.
Suspects arrested in India often sign confession statements which they later deny in court, saying that they had signed them under duress. But in a POTA case, they cannot. However, there is nothing in the law that stops an expert witness from seeking to discredit confessions."
Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/linguist-in-a-pota-court?goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1
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