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• EVIDENCE - CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT - Appropriate time to object to the admissibility of a confessional statement; effect of failure

  "It is now settled that the appropriate time to object to the admissibility of a confessional statement is at the point when the Prosecution seeks to tender same. Any objection…

• CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE - ADMISSIBILITY OF CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT - Principles relating to the admissibility or otherwise of confessional statements

  "Where the appellant states that he did not make a statement or was asked to thumbprint a statement but does not come to say that he did not make the…

• CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE: Admissibility of Confessional Statement - Effect of failure to object to the admission of a Confessional Statement

  "If an accused person does not object when his confessional statement is being tendered, the only reasonable conclusion is that it was made voluntarily. See Bello Shurumo V. the State…

• CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE, EVIDENCE - Admissibility of confessional statement - Proper time to raise an objection to the admissibility of a confessional statement

  "...the voluntariness and the objection thereto on an extra judicial statement must come at the time of the tendering of the statement as thereafter becomes too late for the objection…

• RIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE: Confessional Statement - The Impact of Retraction on the Admissibility of Confessional Statements

  “Admissibility of evidence and particularly documents depends on the purpose for which it is being tendered and so in the case of a confessional statement such as the one in…