HRS §621-26
When a confession can be used in court
A confession can only be used as evidence in a trial if the judge first decides it was made voluntarily. The judge must be convinced before the confession is allowed in. This rule protects people from having forced confessions used against them.
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The statute, as written — Confessions, when admissible
No confession shall be received in evidence unless it is first made to appear to the judge before whom the case is being tried that the confession was in fact voluntarily made.
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