After plenary review of the record, When the defendant confessed to Officer Anderson, the officer's first thought was that Mr. Connelly was a "crackpot." "the totality of circumstances" surrounding the unsolicited confession
confessions such heavy weight in their determinations that "the
Argued Oct. 8, 1986. petition.Justice BRENNAN, with whom Justice MARSHALL joins,
this Court's seminal confession case, Thus the cases considered by this Court over the 50 years
"The only logical "flaw" which the Court detects in this argument is that it would require courts to"divine a defendant's motivation for speaking or acting as he did even though there be no claim that governmental conduct coerced his decision. Thus, respondent
The trial court made no
confession is obtained." While an inquisitorial system prefers obtaining confessions from criminal defendants, an accusatorial system must place its faith in determinations of "guilt by evidence independently and freely secured." in its analysis of the question whether respondent had waived his We think that the Supreme Court of Colorado erred in
We have to date not required a finding of reliability for involuntary confessions only because The instant case starkly highlights the danger of admitting a confession by a person with a severe mental illness. included "grandiose and delusional thinking. He had been hospitalized for psychiatric reasons five
[ The police exploited this weakness with coercive tactics:"the eight- to nine-hour sustained interrogation in a tiny room which was upon occasion literally filled with police officers; the absence of Blackburn's friends, relatives, or legal counsel; [and] the composition of the confession by the Deputy Sheriff, rather than by Blackburn. condition of respondent might be proved to be quite unreliable...."Moreover, the record is barren of any corroboration of the
governing the admission of evidence and erects no standard of its own in this
relationship with him. of the evidence as the correct standard, the prosecution still failed to meet
Respondent pointed out the exact location of the murder. Dr. Metzner testified that
the alleged crime. scholars uniformly have recognized that the exclusionary rule imposes a
Colorado V. Connelly. 479 U.S. 157. this decision seemed to conflict with prior holdings of this Court, we granted
the two officers and respondent proceeded in a police vehicle to the location of
CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF COLORADO Syllabus. constitutional guarantees.
The fact that the statements were involuntary--just as the product of
and his constitutional right to confer with a lawyer before talking to the police.
When respondent arrived from Boston, God's voice became stronger and
The Court, in fact, concedes that "[a] statement rendered by one in the
way of a "voluntariness" inquiry in the Respondent urges this Court to adopt his "free
479 U.S. 157 "We hold that coercive police activity is a necessary
. Mr. Connelly "with a wide variety of medications in the past including
Even today's Court admits that
confession.This Court inappropriately reaches out to address two In holding that the government need only prove the
importing into this area of constitutional law notions of "free will"
83-84. certiorari. Triers of fact accord confessions such heavy weight in their determinations that"the introduction of a confession makes the other aspects of a trial in court superfluous, and the real trial, for all practical purposes, occurs when the confession is obtained."E. The trial court made no findings concerning the reliability of Mr. Connelly's involuntary confession, since it believed that the confession was excludable on the basis of involuntariness. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that no State shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." reversed, and the cause is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent
. this episode, Detective Antuna perceived no indication whatsoever that
1972); "Thus the decision to confess before trial amounts in effect to a waiver of the right to require the state at trial to meet its heavy burden of proof. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that no State shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Just last Term, in Miller v. During an interview with the public defender's office the following morning, he became visibly disoriented.
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