Confession

The divine comedy as a product of medieval literature, it has strong theology and is religious. In a sense, the divine comedy is a symbolic story. The author Dante experienced Hell, Purgatory, and finally Heaven, to meet God. “Before me there was nothing created except the eternal ones, and I endure eternally. Abandon all hope, you who enter (C3, 7-9).” Dante read the lettering at the gates of hell. Inside the Inferno, Dante wrote every sin down, including gluttony, lust, violence, heresy,…

Texas a young man was woken up in the middle of the night in little clothing, taken to the crime scene and then to the Sheriff’s office to be questioned, and would eventually confessing helping in the crime. Well, per Carmen and Walker (2015), his confession was inadmissible because the officers did not have any probable cause to question him in the first place. This case is important because the young man thought he was under arrest due to police officers telling him “we need to go and talk” in…

as a backbone of comfort, whereas Augustine looked to it for wisdom. Though, while Augustine made Christianity acceptable to intellectuals, Abelard made it relatable to the common man by proving its forgiveness of sin. In addition, Augustine’s Confessions clarified many ideas of Christianity the common man could not comprehend. One of which being that the Holy Spirit was not a physical thing, but rather a force above humankind. Augustine also continued to question why evil existed, and by…

physically hitting her on the back of the head, depriving her of water and legal representation, this commenced for up to 53 hours before Knox falsely implicated Diya Lumumba (her boss) in the murder of Meredith Kercher (Interrogation, n.d.). This false confession is known as a “Stress-compliant false…

We see from his book “The Confessions”, that he struggled just like we do today and this is seen when Augustine writes, “I boldly thrust out rank, luxuriant growth in various furtive love affairs; my beauty wasted away and I rotted in your sight, intent on pleasing myself and winning favor in the eyes of men.” (The Confessions, 33). Here Augustine is admitting that he was involved in fornication, so that he would look manly…

or not to hear confession on a night where he is so exhausted. “It would be such a pity if the soldiers came before we had time… such a burden on poor souls, father…” Thus, one can infer from the old man that they are very religious even in the times of the outlawing of Catholicism. This shows their devotion and dedication to their…

Justice Clark is proud of the police agencies and is in favor of the way they conduct their job. He suggests that the criminal justice system should remain using the rule of “totality -of- circumstances,” this method would rule out any coerced confessions and this should be adamantly practiced by law…

innocent individuals are the victims of wrongful convictions or not. According to the author, majority of such cases were due to the misidentification by the eyewitness, the misconduct of the policemen or the prosecutors and in some cases false confessions or perjured testimony. Thereafter a number of empirical investigations tried…

(Leung), or in other words, planted, the idea of the possibility for making a crime doubtlessly must be considered immoral. However, the law clearly states that the policemen are allowed to deceit the suspect for the purpose of acquiring the suspect’s confession. Now the question is back at whether these situations should be justifiable or not. The most uneasy part of the fear of the unknown is simply because of the fact that it is…

Rachel Hawthorne once said, “Deception might give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away at the end”. In the book The Canterbury Tales, “The Friar’s tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer talks about how evilness shall be punished and shall be put to justice at the end.It’s about a friar telling a tale about a summoner who meets his fate in the woods after a run-in with a devil pretending to be a bailiff/ a yeoman. The personality and description of the friar are reflected amongst…