Mathis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"In the evening time — in the fact of the matter, late at night — it was 11:00, I believe or around that time; 11:30 — they gave him another set of rights. It was signed by him in front of Whipple. He gave Whipple a confession. Davenport came in and read the whole thing to him again, and then read over his statement here because — I don't want to use his term — it is a statement about what he thinks happened and he signed that up there in the Detective Bureau. " Now, did you hear one thing about him getting beaten up or somebody was pounding on his head, forcing him into this? Not a word about it. Mr. Mathis came forward with that on his own hook. He said, yes, here is what happened and here there are two things in this confession."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 278 So. 2d 280 - State v. Mathis