R v McGovern (1990)
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From Law wiki, the wiki for law research(1990) 92 Cr App R 228 (CA). The Court of Appeal held that the trial judge should have excluded the defendant's Confession on the grounds that it was rendered unreliable by her circumstances. The defendant was pregant and, when she was interviewed by the police, she was vomiting and in distress. Compare R v goldberg (1988), where a confession elicited from a herion addict in withdrawal was held to be admissible.Contributors This page was last modified on 24 May 2011, at 17:26.This page has been accessed 1,691 times.
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