PSSC 130 CHAPTER 11

• Test for voluntariness: test to see if confession was given voluntarily and free of any coercion.
• Different factors or conditions the courts will examine in determining whether a confession was voluntary include:

  • if they get a break
  • if they are coerced
  • if they have eaten
  • lighting
  • if they have been able to ret
• Warned statement (caution): A statement that is intended to give notice of the consequences of a promise. read after you read them their s. 10
• R. v. Oickle: guides courts when considering confessions
• person in authority might be officer, crown prosecutor, sheriffs, judge, guard, etc.
• saying or acknowledging something qualifies as an admission of guilt. can be verbal or non verbal.
• Conscriptive evidence: evidence that is forced out of someone by use of inducements, coercion. obtained as a result of violating their rights.