366 Ill. App. 3d 638 - People v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2020
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim · 211 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Pitman · 136 Ill. 2d 66 - People v. Foskey
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We lastly examine the purpose and flagrancy of police misconduct in affecting defendant’s desire to confess. “Police action is flagrant where the investigation is carried out in such a manner as to cause surprise, fear, and confusion, or where it otherwise has a ‘quality of pur posefulness,’ i.e., where the police embark upon a course of illegal conduct in the hope that some incriminating evidence (such as the very statement obtained) might be found.” Such misconduct can include mistreatment of the defendant such as the deprivation of food, drink, and the opportunity to sleep. Because the two key Brown factors militate against a finding of attenuation, we find that the circuit court erred in denying defendant’s motion to suppress his statements to Detective Fassl and ASA Papa. The use of an involuntary confession as substantive evidence of a defendant’s guilt is never harmless error and requires reversal of any convictions obtained on such a basis. Accordingly, we reverse each of defendant’s convictions and remand for a new trial in which defendant’s statements will be suppressed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“On cross-examination, Detective Fassl admitted that it was his goal to elicit a confession from defendant and that he was aware at the time of the investigation that there was no physical evidence or eyewitness accounts implicating defendant in Villalobos’ murder. He stated that transporting defendant to the murder scene was an interview technique that he hoped would provoke defendant to confess and that he did not walk defendant through the apartment telling him what he had done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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