Cornell said Malvo's confession -- made to Fairfax County police and the FBI -- was "inaccurate, " and was an attempt to spare Muhammad a death sentence.
He decided that the only possible hope of redemption was through confession - to admit that he'd made an election promise he knew he had little, if any, chance of delivering.
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Eddie Slovik, went through the process from confession to court-martial to sentence to execution by firing squad.
"Only when Mr. Armstrong makes a full confession under oath -- and tells the anti-doping authorities all he knows about doping activities -- can any legal and proper process for him to seek any reopening or reconsideration of his lifetime ban commence, " Howman, the agency's director general, said Tuesday.
In 1994 police re-opened their inquiries when a recording of an alleged death-bed confession by Thorogood came to light.
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And after a limp Villa display on the pitch, the manager's post-match confession of affection for his former team served to fuel the ire of some supporters.
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The circumstances surrounding the confession of Mohammed, whom law-enforcement officials refer to as K.S.M.
Detectives searched woods in Bolton-by-Bowland after a confession from Shane Fitzpatrick, who was convicted of the murder in July 2006.
It's that Iran's entrenched interests read Obama's meant-to-be-conciliatory remarks as a confession of weakness, a signal that the United States is at the end of its strategic rope.
In murder cases, two-thirds of the project's DNA-cleared cases involved a false confession.
Bolshoi theatre staff - including dancers as well as choir, orchestra and stage members - said Mr Dmitrichenko's confession had seemed forced.
For example, on April 26, ABC News aired part of a videotaped confession by suspected al Qaeda terrorist Azmi al-Jayousi, who was captured before he could unleash a devastating chemical attack in Jordan.
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But that's a feeble "protect-us-from-ourselves" argument and a horrible confession, too.
Upaid, a British mobile-payments firm, is seeking damages in an intellectual-property dispute that predates Mr Raju's confession.
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World Anti-Doping Agency officials said nothing short of "a full confession under oath" would even cause them to reconsider the ban.
Whether his televised confession will help or hurt Armstrong's bruised reputation and his already-tenuous defense in at least two pending lawsuits, and possibly a third, remains to be seen.
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In a complicated series of claims and counter-claims she had confessed to the murder and then retracted that confession.
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Events include Elvis cage fighting, confessing sins at the virtual confession box, breakfast aerobics with the nuns, more nuns and priests five-a-side soccer on the beach and the Lovely Lady competition (a homage to the kitsch Irish Rose of Tralee), where girls are tested on their sandwich-making or swiss-rolling skills.
Although Mr Portillo has never embellished his original confession, he has woven this part of his biography into a tedious narrative of personal self-discovery.
Some media outlets have reported that Armstrong has been strongly considering the possibility of a confession, possibly as a way to stem the tide of fleeing sponsors and as part of a long-term comeback plan.
One of the most remarkable stories is of a Redditor whose confession on the site about how he was cheating his employer led to him being sacked, then re-hired as his firm's IT boss while the man who fired him was let go.
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During court proceedings, Mr Mouloudzadeh withdrew a confession he had made earlier, saying it had been the result of coercion by the police, the US-based group says.
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Files released in 1991 - spanning incidents from 1971 to 1991 - also showed a pattern of failure to report sexual abuse to the police, even when a confession had been made.
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Nuchereno believes Ortiz's confession was prompted by several factors, including his mental illness, his inability to understand English well and a deep-seated fear for his own life.
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