11.   Or why police obtained the confession with no one representing the suspects.

12.   Prosecutors said the confession was properly obtained, and Hurley promised to produce other evidence showing that the two men were together that day.

13.   The quest by cops to obtain confessions and cultivate informants from robbers routinely throws together odd couples in a tangled dance with the devil.

14.   Though rare, in a few police precincts around the nation, physical threats and actual violence are still used to obtain confessions.

15.   Parry and McLauchlan confessed to the killing but later recanted, saying their confessions were obtained through physical and sexual abuse by their interrogators.

16.   But police questioned Skiadopoulos for about four hours and obtained a confession.

17.   But police questioned Skiadopoulos Tuesday and obtained a confession before driving him here.

18.   But they later recanted, saying their confessions were obtained after physical and sexual abuse by their interrogators.

19.   But they later recanted, saying their confessions were obtained through physical and sexual abuse by their interrogators.

20.   But police questioned Skiadopoulos, a petty officer on a cruise ship, for about four hours and obtained a confession.