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Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Evidentiary Instructions—Confessions

3.14  When Submission of Oral Statements Is Required

Comment

Despite the numerous statutory requirements applicable to evidence that an accused made an oral self-incriminating statement during custodial interrogation, relatively few of these requirements can generate issues for the jury.

Submission is required, as discussed at CPJC 3.10, only if the evidence establishes a factual dispute.