What is the test for involuntary confessions in criminal cases?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Collazo v. Estelle, 940 F.2d 411 (9th Cir. 1991):
6 See also Spano v. New York, 360 U.S. 315, 320-21, 79 S.Ct. 1202, 1205-06, 3 L.Ed.2d 1265 (1959) ("The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that in the end life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.").
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