280 So. 2d 706 - Land v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “"Defendant seeks appellate review of a judgment of conviction and sentence based upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of causing the death of a human being by the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated, contrary to the provisions of law. The sole point on appeal challenges the trial court's denial of his motion for a new trial on the ground that the court erred in refusing to grant him an evidentiary hearing out of the presence of the jury on his motion to suppress a confession made by him because it was involuntarily given. "From the record it appears without dispute that during the progress of the trial while the State was putting on its evidence, the county sheriff was called as a witness. After a few preliminary questions and answers, the jury was excused in order that the State might proffer an alleged confession made by appellant to the sheriff following the incident out of which this prosecution arose. In this proffer the sheriff testified that after administering the Miranda warnings to appellant and securing from him a waiver of his constitutional rights, appellant told the sheriff that at the time and place in question he had `bumped a woman' in front of the bank building and continued on in his automobile. At the conclusion of the sheriff's proffered testimony, appellant's trial counsel requested the court for permission to place defendant on the stand for the purpose of offering testimony bearing on the question of the voluntariness of the statements mad”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 293 So. 2d 704 - Land v. State

2. “"... I have serious doubts that a trial judge, after a conviction by a jury composed of fellow community members and probable friends of whose opinion he may view with high regard, can any more be uninfluenced by such jury conviction than the jury can be uninfluenced by the fact of a confession. " (Emphasis supplied)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 305 So. 2d 19 - Husk v. State

3. “"[T]he precepts of justice under law, we think, can best be observed by awarding a new trial to the appellant, with directions to the trial court to hold an evidentiary hearing, either before or during the retrial, in the absence of the jury, as to the issue of the voluntariness of the appellant's confession." [17]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 293 So. 2d 704 - Land v. State