voluntariness
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Definitions from Case Law
From 365 U.S. 534 - Rogers v. Richmond · 1961Most cited · 2,510 citing opinions
the attention of the trial judge should have been focused, for purposes of the Federal Constitution, on the question whether the behavior of the State's law enforcement officials was such as to overbear petitioner's will to resist and bring about confessions not freely self-determined—a question to be answered with complete disregard of whether or not petitioner in fact spoke the truth