What is the impact of drug addiction on a defendant's mental state?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Warren, A152902 (Cal. App. 2020):
susceptibility to police coercion, mere examination of the confessant's state of mind can never conclude the due process inquiry' "]; see, e.g., United States v. Coleman (9th Cir. 2000) 208 F.3d 786, 791 [heroin withdrawal symptomsi.e., lethargy and physical discomfortnot enough to establish involuntariness of confession].)
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