MT · jury_instructions
Mont. Crim. Jury Instr. 1-119 (2022)
Admissions or Confessions
A statement made by a Defendant other than at this trial may be an admission or a confession.
A confession, as applied in criminal law, is a statement by a person made after the offense was committed that he/she committed or participated in the commission of a crime. An admission is a statement made by the accused, direct or implied, of facts pertinent to the issue, and tending, in connection with proof of other facts, to prove his/her guilt. A conviction cannot be based on an admission or confession alone.
The circumstances under which the statement was made may be considered in determining its credibility or weight. You are the exclusive judges as to whether an admission or a confession was made by the Defendant, and if so, whether such statement is true in whole or in part. If you should find that any such statement is entirely untrue, you must reject it. If you find it is true in part, you may consider that part which you find to be true.
Evidence of an unrecorded oral admission or oral confession of the Defendant should be viewed with caution.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.mt.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2009
- Content hash
3026f66d00124031bfdbadb77692f9ed483ee1a29878b4e16b14f47863254c4e
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