473 So. 2d 547 - Primm v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
April 1993
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fletcher v. State · Taylor v. State · Hinton v. State · 338 So. 2d 428 - Ellis v. State · 350 So. 2d 708 - Williams v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“'[W]hen an accused volunteers a confession to a person who is not a law enforcement official or agent and has no connection whatever with law enforcement authorities, who has no interest whatever in the prosecution of the accused, is not in a position to promise or give the accused anything to compensate for his confession or to harm him for not making a confession, and there was no occasion whatever on the part of the person to whom the confession was made to have threatened the defendant if he did not confess or to make him any promise if he did confess, the confession under such circumstances is voluntary and admissible in evidence. Ellis v. State , Ala.Cr.App., 338 So.2d 428 , 432 (1976); Kircheis v. State , 56 Ala. App. 526 , *Page 1004 323 So.2d 412 (1975), cert. denied, 295 Ala. 409 , 323 So.2d 421 .' Primm v. State , 473 So.2d 547 , 553 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984). See also Warrick v. State , 460 So.2d 320 , 323 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984); Hinshaw v. State , 398 So.2d 762 , 764 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 398 So.2d 766 (Ala. 1981).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`[T]he identity exception seems to have taken on a more liberal definition when the defendant is charged with a sex crime such as rape. In such cases the courts seem to allow proof of other similar crimes by the accused if they, in any way, go to identify him as the person who committed the now-charged crime.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No one is in a better position than was the trial judge to *Page 1148 determine whether such action should have been taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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