An Assessment of Victim Confessional Statement Utility in Criminal Trials

The confessional statement of an accused person is of great evidential value in the dispensation of justice. It represents the most important and most frequently encountered exception to the rule against hearsay in criminal cases. The study was carried out to assess the victim Confessional Statement Utility in Criminal Trials. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows 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 Criminal Trials. 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.