New Mexico Supreme Court· 1/11/1988

Aguilar v. State

Citations

751 P.2d 178
106 N.M. 798

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stating the court’s analysis involves “the largely inferential determination of how the accused reacted to the external facts”
adopting totality of the circumstances test for determining voluntariness of confession as set forth in court of appeals opinion in that case
explaining that “[i]n contrast to the Court’s deferment under the 14 first phase of the analysis, the appellate court in the second and third phases of the 15 analysis must draw its own conclusions based on the totality of the circumstances”
describing a three-step review process, derived from 13 Culombe v. Connecticut, 367 U.S. 568 (1961
applying de novo review to analogous issue of voluntariness of statements themselves
reviewing de novo a conclusion about whether a confession was voluntary

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Judges: Ransom, Garcia, Scarborough, Sosa, Walters, Stowers, Donnelly, Bivins

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