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Miller Vs. Fenton

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Dec 03, 1985

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  14. U.S. 104 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court Miller v. Fenton
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  15. U.S. 104 (1985) Miller v. Fenton
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  16. s guarantee of due process. App. 53. Over three dissents, the Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed again. State v. Miller
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  17. s importance to the administration of criminal justice, we granted certiorari. 471 U.S. 1003 (1985). Compare Brantley v. McKaskle
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  18. Alexander v. Smith
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  19. system of justice that they must be condemned under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Brown v. Mississippi
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  20. Court has set aside convictions secured through the admission of an improperly obtained confession. See, e.g., Mincey v. Arizona
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  21. Amendment privilege against compulsory self-incrimination applies in the context of custodial interrogations, Miranda v. Arizona
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  22. U. S. 436 , 384 U. S. 478 (1966), and is binding on the States, Malloy v. Hogan
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  23. the Court has continued to measure confessions against the requirements of due process. See, e.g., Mincey v. Arizona
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  24. is a legal question requiring independent federal determination. See, e.g., Haynes v. Washington
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  25. circumstances of the case, the confession is unlikely to have been the product of a free and rational will. See Mincey v. Arizona
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  26. is no less firmly established in cases coming to the federal system on application for a writ of habeas corpus. Davis v. North
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  27. review of state voluntariness findings. That suggestion finds no support in this Court's decisions. See, e.g., Boulden v. Holman
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  28. of that provision. The 1966 amendment was an almost verbatim codification of the standards delineated in Townsend v. Sain
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  29. U. S. 306 , or whether in fact the police engaged in the intimidation tactics alleged by the defendant, LaVallee v. Delle
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  30. habeas court, should, of course, give great weight to the considered conclusions of a coequal state judiciary. Culombe v. Connecticut
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  31. d) presumption of correctness. See Wainwright v. Witt
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  32. for distinguishing questions of fact from questions of law has been, to say the least, elusive. See Bose Corp. v. Consumers
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  33. Baumgartner v. United
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  34. an inquiry into state of mind is not at all inconsistent with treating it as a question of fact. See, e.g., Maggio v. Fulford
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  35. merely because its resolution is dispositive of the ultimate constitutional question. See Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman
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  36. force and, in so doing, strip a federal appellate court of its primary function as an expositor of law. See Bose Corp. v. Consumers
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  37. Id. at 466 U. S. 518 (REHNQUIST, J., dissenting). See, e.g., Haynes v. Washington
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  38. U. S. 49 , 338 U. S. 52 (1949) (opinion of Frankfurter, J.). Cf. Norris v. Alabama
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  39. the process of applying law to fact to the trial court and according its determinations presumptive weight. Patton v. Yount
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  40. supra, and Wainwright v. Witt
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  41. Moragne v. States
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  42. d) after Townsend v. Sain
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  43. independent federal determination. Thus, not only are stare decisis concerns compelling, but, unlike in Marshall v. Lonberger
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  44. U. S. 422 (1983), Rushen v. Spain
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  45. has consistently looked to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to test admissibility. See, e.g., Mincey v. Arizona
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  46. not be secured by inquisitorial means as on whether the defendant's will was, in fact, overborne. See, e.g., Gallegos v. Colorado
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Miller v. Fenton
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  48. State v. Miller
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  49. Compare Brantley v. McKaskle
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  50. Alexander v. Smith
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