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Adams v. State

Citations

  • 830 So. 2d 911
  • 2002 WL 31557026

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  • holding that a confession obtained during custodial interrogation after an illegal arrest is inadmissible at trial, but can be admissible as evidence where the State can prove the causal chain between the arrest and the confession is broken
  • holding that a confession obtained during custodial interrogation after an illegal arrest is 7 inadmissible at trial, but can be admissible as evidence where the State can prove the causal chain between the arrest and the confession is broken
  • reversing conviction where prosecutor denigrated defense counsel and made argument which implicated defendant’s exercise of a constitutional right
  • reversing conviction where prosecutor’s personal attacks on defense counsel in closing argument was not remedied by trial court’s curative instruction

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Judges: Levy, Gersten, and Green

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