Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “It is perhaps appropriate to note at this point that not all extrajudicial statements against interest amount to “confessions,” notwithstanding that some Florida courts as well as courts in other jurisdictions have, on occasion, used the words “confession” and “admission” interchangeably to describe such statements. In Nelson v. State, 372 So.2d 949 (Fla. 2d DCA 1979), the court, citing Parrish v. State, 90 Fla. 25 , 105 So. 130 (1925), distinguished “confessions,” which are complete acknowledgments of a criminal act, from “admissions,” which are statements from which guilt may be inferred. While confessions are inadmissible until the State presents prima facie evidence of the corpus delicti, admissions are admissible as prima facie evidence of the corpus delicti.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Easley v. Portman