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Lego Vs. Twomey

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 12, 1972

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  1. Stroble Vs. California US Supreme Court · Apr 07, 1952
  2. Payne Vs. Arkansas US Supreme Court · May 19, 1958
  3. U.S. 477 (1972) U.S. Supreme Court Lego v. Twomey
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  4. U.S. 477 (1972) Lego v. Twomey
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  5. Petitioner also urges that, even though the trial judge ruled on his coercion claim, he was entitled, under Duncan v. Louisiana
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  6. The hearing on the voluntariness of a confession required by this Court's decision in Jackson v. Denno
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  7. confession was, in fact, voluntarily given, and not the outcome of coercion which the Constitution forbids. Jackson v. Denno
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  8. On direct appeal, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the conviction. People v. Lego
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  9. that Lego had no state remedy then available to him, and denied relief on the merits. United States ex rel. Lego v. Pate
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  10. is designed to enhance the reliability of jury verdicts. To judge whether that is so, we must return to Jackson v. Denno
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  11. in whole or in part, upon an involuntary confession, without regard for the truth or falsity of the confession, Rogers v. Richmond
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  12. U. S. 534 , and even though there is ample evidence aside from the confession to support the conviction. Malinski v. New
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  13. on the issue of voluntariness, a determination uninfluenced by the truth or falsity of the confession. Rogers v. Richmond
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  14. whether true or false, is forbidden because the method used to extract them offends constitutional principles. Rogers v. Richmond
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  15. doubt in order to give adequate protection to those values that exclusionary rules are designed to serve. Jackson v. Denno
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  16. supra, an offspring of Brown v. Mississippi
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  17. U. S. 278 (1936), requires judicial rulings on voluntariness prior to admitting confessions. Miranda v. Arizona
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  18. flowing from custodial interrogations unless adequate warnings were administered and a waiver was obtained. Weeks v. United
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  19. States, 232 U. S. 383 (1914), and Mapp v. Ohio
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  20. obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment has been excluded from federal criminal trials for many years. Weeks v. United
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  21. States, supra. The same is true of coerced confessions offered in either federal or state trials. Bram v. United
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  22. Brown v. Mississippi
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  23. that a jury is better suited than a judge to determine voluntariness, it, questions the basic assumptions of Jackson v. Denno
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  24. that the Constitution requires submission of voluntariness claims to a jury as well as a judge. Finally, Duncan v. Louisiana
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  25. by a preponderance of the evidence or to the satisfaction of the court or proof of voluntariness in fact. E.g., Duncan v. State
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  26. State v. Dillon
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  27. People v. Harper
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  28. State v. Milow
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  29. Barnhart v. State
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  30. Commonwealth v. White
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  31. State v. Nolan
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  32. State v. White
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  33. State v. Brewton
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  34. Butler v. Rundle
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  35. Monts v. State
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  36. State v. Davis
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  37. Other States, using state law or not specifying a basis, require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. E.g., State v. Ragdale
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  38. State v. Keiser
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  39. State v. Yough
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  40. People v. Huntley
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  41. State v. Thundershield
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  42. Goodchild v. Burke
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  43. have held as an exercise of supervisory power that voluntariness must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Ralph v. Warden
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  44. F.2d 786, 793 (CA4 1970), clarifying United States v. Inman
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  45. Pea v. United
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  46. United States v. Schipani
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  47. Illinois followed what we described in Jackson v. Denno
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  48. People v. Wagoner
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  49. People v. Thomlison
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  50. the right to adjudicate his federal claims or deliberately bypassed state procedures for testing those claims. Cf. Fay v. Noia
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