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Baroness Lawrence said: "Any person who expresses views like these and does not recant is an obvious danger to society and must remain in custody."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

Years later, he said he was pressured by the FBI to recant his story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

The most recent petitions discussing Autry’s decision to recant his testimony were filed in Hardin County Circuit Court on Jan. 22, based on what Adams’ lawyer refers to as new evidence.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

She withdrew the allegation later, but Trump's biographer points out that her alimony payments were likely in danger if she did not recant.

From Salon ● May 1, 2023

While Chapman had suggested that Myers must have been pressured to recant, the district attorney presented no actual evidence to support that claim, which made the judge's ruling hard to understand.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

“It recants some of the language in their letter, which I never adopted.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

Faced with doubting, undermining and hounding, Marie recants her story, but the narrative only gets more complicated from there.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2019

Another is that any witness who recants has shown a willingness to lie under oath.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017

In the recording, the victim recants his accusations and blamed the issue on his parents.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2017

Sometimes though, for the women, they’re for a nun who recants.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Prevez later recanted the confession, his lawyer said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Capitalwatch has now recanted the entire report, the publisher told Barron’s, adding that it would issue “no more news updates” about AppLovin.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Three days later, he recanted that confession and spent the rest of his life professing his innocence, claiming that he was made a patsy for the real assassin, a man he called “Raoul.”

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025

But in a 2008 interview with a US historian, she recanted the statement, reportedly saying: "That part's not true."

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025

We now knew that because Myers had recanted his accusations against Walter before the trial, the State might not be entirely surprised to hear that he was denying McMillian's involvement in the crime.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

“DNA evidence, witnesses recanting their prior statements and polygraph testing all supported the ‘actual innocence’ claims of Jarvis Ballard,” district attorney Perry Nicosia wrote.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Mandelson's comments go further than others in government in recanting previous criticism of Trump.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025

That information, the recanting, was initially hidden from Glossip, and he only found out about it a few years ago.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2024

Autry met with Dr. Katie Spirko, a forensic and clinical neuropsychologist, and told her that he was recanting his trial testimony.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver