A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser. (Robert H. Jackson)

A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser.

Robert H. Jackson

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