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Convictions Following The Admission Into Evidence Of Confessions Which Are Involuntary, I.e., The Product Of Coercion, Either Physical Or Psychological, Cannot Stand. This Is So Not Because Such Confessions Are Unlikely To Be True But Because The Methods Used To Extract Them Offend An Underlying Principle In The Enforcement Of Our Criminal Law: That Ours Is An Accusatorial, And Not An Inquisitorial, System - A System In Which The State Must Establish Guilt By Evidence Independently And Freely Secured, And May Not, By Coercion, Prove Its Charges Against An Accused Out Of His Own Mouth.

For The Highest Exercise Of Judicial Duty Is To Subordinate One's Personal Pulls And One's Private Views To The Law Of Which We Are All Guaradians - Those Impersonal Convictions That Made A Society A Civilized Community, And Not The Victims Of Personal Rule.

It Is Important Not To Give The Appearance Of A Predisposed Mind. And It Is More Important Not To Let The Mind Become Predisposed.

If Nowhere Else, In The Relation Between Church And State, "good Fences Make Good Neighbors."

Lincoln's Appeal To "the Better Angels Of Our Nature" Failed To Avert A Fratricidal War. But The Compassionate Wisdom Of Lincoln's First And Second Inaugurals Bequeathed To The Union, Cemented With Blood, A Moral Heritage Which, When Drawn Upon In Times Of Stress And Strife, Is Sure To Find Specific Ways And Means To Surmount Difficulties That May Appear To Be Insurmountable.