[Lurking Libertarian]

The judge in the trial is going to be asked to rule on the admissibility of a variety of pieces of evidence. The alleged confession is one such piece. He will make a ruling. It's entirely possible that the judge will toss it out because there is not, so far, anything that makes the confession believable - to wit: Nothing in it that had not been published earlier, and in the very same newspaper you and your fellow reporter worked.

"Believability" is not a requirement for a confession to be admitted into evidence. The jury gets to decide if it's believable or not. Admissibility is determined chiefly by the issue of voluntariness.

[Poohbah]

Thank you--you made my point in a much more concise fashion than I did.

[muawiyah]

Yes, voluntariness, the 4th amendment, and sanity. To this point the whole situation is unbelievable.

It seems to me, however, that there are a whole big bunch of Freepers who want to believe Atomic Dog's supposed confession without further consideration.