PrincipleCRIMINAL PROCEDURE – Confessional Statements – Objection to Voluntariness – When Objection Must Be Raised
- Area of law
- CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
- Court
- Supreme Court
Objection to voluntariness of a confessional statement must be raised at the time the statement is tendered. Failure to object and failure to cross-examine prosecution witnesses on involuntariness waives the right to raise the issue later. Raising voluntariness belatedly during defence testimony is properly dismissed…
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