@Satch
reg. point 1 and 2:
12 hours is not correct. and i actually thought "WTF" when i heard it in PL3 (i believe was it) because it is just not accurate and they had to know that.
i noted: around 3pm was it when jessie gave his first, and then his second statement. it was morning when they brought him in. so anybody can do the math...
it was some hours, and fact is there is only about 30 minuts on tape, or 45, as you said. also there was no camera in the room. so nobody really knows what happened during most of the time. i personally believe that they showed him pics of the bodies, and got to him with cheap little mind tricks. you could fool a kid into confessing to something and jessie behaved like a kid as it seemed to me.
and to point 3 - i don't actually understand the question i guess.
anyway, people KNEW about jessies confession. read the june 93 newspaper articles, linked on callahan .. of course they talk about jessie saying damien took a knife etc.
or do you mean if his confession was mentioned during the echols/baldwin trial?
Which confession are you referring to? There were many, many confessions. If LE could "trick" him into confessing, why could his own lawyer NOT "trick" him into STOP confessing?