The evidence of a jailhouse confession is considered critical because it could fill a gap in the prosecution's case.

Now these confessions are supposed to be trumped by the untested, unchallenged jailhouse confession of a murderer and serial rapist who claims he acted alone.

In this version, her jailhouse confession was simply an acknowledgement of guilt and of her sinful nature.

Hobbs, whether through coercion or not, made a jailhouse confession and implicated Sarah Wildes as a witch.

Under United States Supreme Court decisions, jailhouse confessions can be used in court only if they are not deliberately elicited.

Dallas County officials say they put no credence in jailhouse confessions.

He found that new evidence, including a jailhouse confession by a convicted murderer, had seriously undermined the state's case.

"I'm not making any jailhouse confessions, they have a way of turning up later on."

Davis had argued that his jailhouse confession was inadmissible because it was given without an attorney present.

She said of the witnesses who told of jailhouse confessions: "We totally discredited them."