Criminal investigations and trials relied heavily on forced confessions and witness testimony. Despite two separate written confessions, Francis pleaded not guilty. Stalin personally directed Yezhov to torture those who were not making proper confessions. This process has revealed the strong role of false confessions in wrongful convictions. The stream of accusations, confessions and jailing continued. Using deception for confessions is permitted, but not coercion. The police had no evidence of these unsigned verbal confessions. Adventist, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other Protestant confessions arose in the following centuries.. The Habsburgs prohibited all Christian confessions other than Catholicism. Separate rules apply for statements qualifying as confessions. Additional details by Norris provided further corroborating evidence to support his confessions. He is perfectly frank in his confessions of ignorance. After several months without any confessions or evidence of their participation, the team is reinstated. The result was a curious mix of fulsome confessions and subtle criticisms of the trial. The towns are all a mix of different Lebanese religious confessions.