531 So. 2d 45 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2014
10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · North Carolina v. Butler · Fare v. Michael C. · Crooker v. State of California
Most-quoted passages
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““In determining the voluntariness of a confession, the court must examine all of the attendant circumstances. Agee v. State, 465 So.2d 1196 (Ala.Cr.App.1984). ‘The true test of determining whether extrajudicial confessions are voluntary is whether the defendant’s will was overborne at the time he confessed so that the confession was not the product of rational intellect and a free will.’ Thomas v. State, 531 So.2d 45, 47 (Ala.Cr.App.1988) (citations omitted).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is not unfair or coercive to confront a suspect with evidence that suggests his guilt. See Moore v. State , 415 So.2d 1210 , 1214 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1041 , 103 S.Ct. 459 , 74 L.Ed.2d 610 (1982) (wherein this Court held that it was neither an unfair tactic nor legally coercive to confront a suspect with a co-defendant's confession); Barrow v. State , 494 So.2d 834 , 839 (Ala.Cr.App. *Page 805 1986) (in which the Court held that even confronting appellant with incorrect statements about evidence implicating him did not render his confession inadmissible where the misrepresentation was not reasonably calculated to lead the accused to confess falsely)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A promise or inducement for a confession cannot be implied from an exhortation to a prisoner that it is best or better to tell the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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