Appellate Court Rules Yunis' Confession Must Comply with Constitution, But Overturns Lower Court's Finding that It Was Involuntary

On October 14, 1988, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously held that the confession of Fawaz Yunis, the Lebanese arrested by the FBI off a yacht near Cyprus for allegedly participating in the 1985 hijacking of a Royal Jordanian Airlines jet in Beirut, was voluntary.  In doing so, the court reversed the lower court's suppression of the confession.