Smith v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. “). We will refer to the facts where necessary to our discussion rather than again recount them fully here. 3 After exhausting his state court remedies, Smith filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied his petition and Smith appealed. 2 In his appeal, Smith contended both that his waiver of his Miranda rights was involuntary and that his confession, because it was involuntary, should not have been admitted in evidence. This court found that Smith had voluntarily waived his Miranda rights but remanded to the district court for an evidentiary hearing”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Duckworth

2. “the youth of the accused ...; his [or her] lack of education, ...; or his [or her] low intelligence, ...; the lack of any advice to the accused of his [or her] constitutional rights, ...; the length of detention, ...; the repeated and prolonged nature of the questioning, ...; and the use of physical punishment such as the deprivation of food or sleep....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Duckworth

3. “to an individual's susceptibility to police coercion, mere examination of the confessant's state of mind can never conclude the due process inquiry,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Madden v. O'Leary F