at 164-65 (majority opinion) (acknowledging that mental condition is "surely relevant" in determining the susceptibility to coercion but "mere examination of the
confessant's state of mind can never conclude the due process inquiry").
Assuming that the confession was valid, it would be binding only to Angel as
confessant and would be considered hearsay for his co-accused, De Guzman's petition said.
v; [d.sub.4]; ds = 24 (at v; [d.sub.4], ds = 4) E.g., confess 1340, confessee 1601 (4),
confessant 1603 (5) vs.
Augustine's Confessions, while configuring in the form of a prayer an intelligible tragedy of the self, is a way of getting at the interior of the mind of the
confessant by creating it.
For if the goal of both legal and religious confession is to bring the
confessant back into the communal fold, Ford's characters confess their secrets in an unsanctioned forum and without a recognized community that awaits their confession and would authorize their readmittance.
Je prefere y aller en
confessant mon manque de comprehension d'une certaine facon, en s'approchant du personnage d'une maniere plus dramatique.
Toutefois, elle tient compte de l'interlocutrice absente car c'est en se
confessant a son ami que la narratrice se libere du poids de la douleur causee par la mort subite de son mari qui avait quitte le foyer conjugal pour prendre une deuxieme epouse.
In a secular context, the achievement of a satisfactory conclusive confession is frustrated by the hyperconscious, self-reflexive scepticism of its
confessant. As the
confessant inspects his initial confession, he will discern a deeper underlying truth (or motive for confession) which the first confession had distorted or omitted and which in turn requires further confession.
Time continues to pass, day and night, but now in a way that always bears the break of conversion within it, a break that does not split time in two but instead inhabits time even as it passes--"No longer will there be night and day for the
confessant; henceforth it is fissured day and fissured night." (13) The morning of John Grimes's renewed life is simultaneously "exhausted and clean, and new" and "the same" as all the mornings that have preceded it.
This dialogue between present and past may also be an interaction between Tejeda
confessant and Tejeda confessor, though the explicit narratee in the poem is an unspecified person listening "desde su alcacar" (12).