harmless error inapplicable to coerced confessions
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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