645 So. 2d 161 - Stephenson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2014
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Texas · 461 So. 2d 936 - Bush v. State · United States v. Curtis · Burch v. State · 417 So. 2d 674 - Donovan v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“A statement claimed to have been made by the defendant outside of court has been placed before you. Such a statement should always be considered with caution and be weighed with great care to make certain it was freely and voluntarily made. Therefore, you must determine from the evidence that the defendant’s alleged statement was knowingly, voluntarily, and freely made. In making this determination, you should consider the total circumstances, including but not limited to 1. whether, when the defendant made the statement, she had been threatened in order to get her to make it, and 2. whether anyone had promised her anything in order to get her to make it. If you conclude the defendant’s out of court statement was not freely and voluntarily made, you should disregard it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he prosecutor’s remark created the erroneous impression that the voluntariness of the confession had been resolved. It would be a cruel joke for the law to grant the defendant a right to have the jury redetermine the voluntariness of a confession, but at the same time allow the State to intimate that the admissibility of the confession had already been determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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