Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““It is argued that the confession of the co-defendant could not have been voluntarily given because confessors’ low bond was at stake. At the pre-trial hearing to suppress this confession the defendant Hopkins testified that the police officers promised to help him in obtaining a low bond in return for his confession. This was refuted by the testimony of all the police officers involved, whose testimony was unimpeached. This alone takes this case out of the framework of Lynumn v. Illinois, 372 U.S. 528 , 83 S.Ct. 917 , 9 L.Ed.2d 922 , where the police officers corroborated the testimony of the defendant in regard to the coercion used to solicit her confession.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sneed v. State