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1. As I indicated earlier, the judgment which has just been read is the judgment of the Court. I have had the gravest doubts whether it is right to regard the exculpatory parts of an extra-judicial statement as evidence for any purpose other than to negative, or reduce the weight of, the admissions which it contains. I have been rather less impressed than the other members of the Court by the suggested artificiality and unfairness of what Wigmore, in the passage cited, says is “logically unquest