Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions

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1. “[The trial court must make a preliminary factual determination of voluntariness when assessing the statement's ad-misgibility. The jury, however, remains the final arbiter of all factual issues under Article 1, Section 19 of the Indiana Constitution. Even if the court preliminarily determines that the statement is voluntary and admits it for the jury's consideration, then the defendant is still entitled to dispute the voluntariness of the statement once it is presented to the jury. Although the court has previously determined voluntariness in connection with the statement's admissibility, the jury may find that the statement was involuntarily given. If the jury makes such a determination, then it should give the statement no weight in deciding the defendant's guilt or innocence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vandivier v. State · Miller v. State

2. “not all police interrogation statements of conjecture, presented as fact, constitute police deception.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Washington v. State · Washington v. State

3. “good faith basis for their technical falsehood, then their action will not be deemed deceptive.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Washington v. State · Washington v. State