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The study scrutinizes the Attitude of the Judiciary Towards Admissibility of Confessional Statement. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out to assess the Admissibility Confessional Statement and the attitude of the Judiciary, find out the factors that makes the confessional statement inadmissible and irrelevant, and examine the voluntariness and retraction of a confessional statement as well as confessions of other offences in addition to those charged. A confession is a species of admission. When in the course of an investigation into a criminal offence, a suspect has made a statement to the police tending to show that he has committed that offence, the statement is known as a confession. Confession is governed by rules which assist the court in the administration of justice. This study will be of immense benefit to lawyers and other researchers who intend to know more on this study and can also be used by non-researchers to build more on their research work. This study contributes to knowledge and could serve as a guide for other study.
1.1 Introduction
The term confession means a free and voluntary admission of guilt of a crime by an accused person. A Confession may also mean an out -of-court statement made by a suspect to the police in whom he voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently acknowledges that he committed or participated in the crime and which makes it clear that there is no defence in law that would make his conduct lawful. In his brilliant contributions to what a confession is, Professor Nokes7 in his book titled, An Introduction to Evidence finds no difference between “admissions” and “confessions” saying the terms can sometimes be used in interchangeably.
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Research hypothesis and questions, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
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