Any confession that is not free and voluntary is a confession of no real value, which does a grave injustice to the person so confessing as well as a massive disservice to the general public, because they have been cheated of having justice equally and fairly applied to all. To obtain a false confession from someone, is not all that difficult, especially when that person so confessing has been placed into the unenviable position of fatigue, handcuffs, freedom revoked, pressure, coercion, pain, intimidation, trickery, lying, and the lack of finality without that confession so coming forth.
Anytime, anyone is separated from that which is normality for them, and placed into a situation in which they lack freedom of movement, and are restricted to what they can or cannot do or say, of which, the authority so in charge of this, is pressuring the person so arrested to agree to this or to that, and then everything will go back to normality; then some sort of confession is much easier to achieve, for those in authority have absolute control of that domain, and the arrested person knows this.
There are plenty of people that claim that under no circumstances, whatsoever, would they ever confess to a crime or to some activity that happened, that they did not do. That is quite easy to say, and far harder to live to; when in fact, that person is placed into a situation in which they have no say upon anything that is happening to them, and the power to stop such is held in the hands of the authority that simply wants in return a signature to some words so being written that will, for a time at least, end the current misery that this arrested person is so undergoing.
All of the above signifies that these coerced confessions, or even confessions in general, should be questionable evidence in any legitimate court of law. In truth, those that confess on paper, should be the exact same people that should voluntarily in a court of law, confess the very same thing, that they so-called confessed without being coerced to begin with, or if they are unable to do so, then these “confessions” should be dismissed as an irrelevancy to the trial in question, and the trial should be conducted instead upon the evidence and witnesses, so of.
For those that are lazy or intent that convictions above all, is the objective always of any legal criminal investigation, then American justice should stay on the same corrupt course that it currently rides upon. If, though, on the other hand, America wants to be fair and to pursue justice as to what it fairly owes to those that are the citizens of this great nation, than confessions, however so colored, are something that should be seen as something that only exists in those nations that wish to circumvent what the representation of true justice is at its best.
In reality, confessions have no place in a court of law, and they should not be objective of police interrogations; they should instead take a back seat always to the pursuit of the truth of any criminal investigation; of which, these investigations should be built upon the foundation of facts and evidence, not conjectures, and never words so scripted by those in authority.