{"id":2476,"date":"2014-02-07T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T04:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2023-08-07T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:01:13","slug":"33-bedrock-principle-a-confession-must-be-voluntary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"33. Bedrock Principle: A Confession Must Be Voluntary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4069\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pt04pg33-1.png\" alt=\"For over 100 years, the Fifth Amendment self-incrimination clause was hardly even mentioned in American law. State law was what mattered, and they referred more to England's common law for guidance here. By the 1830s, judges in some states were routinely advising defendants that they had the right to not answer questions, and that what they said could be used to convict them. Courts had little tolerance for confessions or admissions that weren't completely voluntary.\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pt04pg33-1.png 2800w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pt04pg33-1-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pt04pg33-1-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pt04pg33-1-843x1024.png 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2800px) 100vw, 2800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-procedure","category-self-incrimination","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}