Category: False Confession
False Confession Defense Evidence Excluded
Tennessee courts recognize that false confessions do sometimes occur. In a case where the State’s case includes an out-of-court confession from the Defendant, that evidence must usually be addressed in some way by the defense, if it cannot be excluded. In the recent Tennessee case of State v. Mays, W2012-00607-CCA-R3-CD (Tenn.Crim.App. 3-7-2014), the defense in a felony murder