harmless error inapplicable to coerced confessions
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 372 U.S. 528 - Lynumn v. Illinois · 1963Most cited · 1,438 citing opinions
even though there may have been sufficient evidence, apart from the coerced confession, to support a judgment of conviction, the admission in evidence, over objection, of the coerced confession vitiates the judgment because it violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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