21.   The attorney said the former detective coerced a confession from a co-defendant, who implicated his client, Howard McCowan.

22.   The authorities said he had confessed to setting the fire, but the defense said his confession had been coerced.

23.   The defense says their confessions were coerced and a police chemist lied on the stand about forensic evidence.

24.   The other, incarcerated in the same jail with the condemned woman, says her confession was coerced by jailhouse torture.

25.   The state Supreme Court has overturned the conviction because his confession was coerced.

26.   They may assert, for instance, that crucial evidence was covered up or a confession was coerced.

27.   While willing to accept some changes, Democrats worried that stringent limits would deny appeals to prisoners who were innocent or whose confessions were coerced by police.

28.   Amir admitted the signed confession was not coerced.

29.   Anwar says their confessions were coerced.

30.   Both men are now appealing their convictions on the grounds that police coerced their confessions.