USE FOR GRAMOPHONE
PRISONERS’ STATEMENTS. Gramophone records as aids to the administration of justice, are proposed by M. Passerieu, judge of the 14th Chamber of the Paris Correctional Court, and supported by such prominent counsel as Maitres Campichy and Andred Hesse. The idea is that gramophone records should be taken of all voluntary statements made by prisoners on arrest, instead of their statements being taken down by a station-sergeant and read to them before signature. , The prisoner, it is argued, often makes a so-called voluntary statement, and hurriedly signs it without reflecting sufficiently on the interpretation which may be placed on his words; whereas, if his statement were reproduced in court from the gramophone record the intonation of his voice would make clear to Judge and jury the exact emphasis which he sought to give to any particular phrase. This is particularly important in French procedure, where prisoners have previously been interrogated by examinating magistrates, and sometimes subjected to third-degree methods which gramophone records would reproduce faithfully.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1931, Page 2
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167USE FOR GRAMOPHONE Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1931, Page 2
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