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By now Michel Foucault's formulations about sexuality--the discursive constructions of sex--are well known. Yet, despite the fact that confession figu...
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BLOOMINGTON - Liam McCauley's taped confession to the Aug. 21 stabbing and beating death of his father was played for a judge Tuesday during his bench trial on murder charges.
I killed my Dad. ... I chased him from my room with a baseball bat and I stabbed him a lot," McCauley told a police dispatcher.
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Lutheran Theology as Troubling Field of Mission?
The Lutheran contribution to mission has been oftentimes unattended. The Reformer's understanding o...
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Telling a suspect that he would be able to return home after questioning regardless of what he said did not render his confession inadmissible at trial, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in affirming the Court of Appeals.
The defendant was suspected of molesting a 4-year-old child who lived in his home. He voluntarily went to the sheriff's office for questioning and was interviewed by two officers for an hour and 20 minutes in a non-custodial setting.
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The admissibility of an 11-page confession of an illegal immigrant accused of raping and strangling his 15-year-old sister- in-law on Jan. 15 was debated at length in Orleans County Court late this week.
Carlos A. Cardenas, 21, of East State Street, signed the document in February, saying he accidentally strangled Katherine "Katy" Sanchez, his wife's sister.
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ON HESPERUS AT CONFESSION from the Latin of Sir Thomas More When Hesperus was making his confession of sins, according to the sacred rite, the careful...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The year is not yet over and already the confessions are starting to roll in from some of the biggest U.S. money managers.
Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund, sent out a "mea culpa" letter late Friday [Oct. 14] to his many mom-and-pop investors, saying he's sorry for putting up such bad numbers this year. Mea culpas from PIMCO's guiding light and the self-styled "bond king" are rare, largely because his Total Return Fund has long been one of the industry's top performers.
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A Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Office sergeant revealed to prosecutors Tuesday, less than 12 hours before the start of a murder trial, that last week a defendant confessed to the gruesome 2010 slaying of Steven Duran in Ojo Caliente.
Why Sgt. Abraham Baca kept that information to himself until the eve of Toby Gonzales' second-degree murder trial -- along with the police report he wrote Monday on the alleged confession -- is unclear.
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BELFAST A former Searsport Elementary School music teacher said he was sick, overmedicated on prescription cough syrup and deeply distressed when he wrongly confessed to a police detective two years ago that he had sexually abused a 12-year-old girl.
He also said the girl who accused him controlled his household and that he was afraid of her.
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Confession by app! Really?
Some might read that phrase with wonder and curiosity, now that this iconic Roman Catholic practice is available through the latest technology of the Internet and cell phones.