Armenta v. AAC Cross County Mall, LLC

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• “To be sure, confessions cruelly extorted may be and have been, to an unascertained extent, found to be untrustworthy.”
• involuntary confessions excluded “not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system”
• “[A] legal standard which [takes] into account the circumstance of probable truth or falsi ty ... is not a permissible standard under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
• essential Fourteenth Amendment question is whether incriminating statements were voluntary, i.e., \whether the behavior of [state] law enforcement officials was such as to overbear [a suspect's] will to resist and bring about confessions not freely self-determined\
• statements not voluntary where defendant's wife had nothing to do with the crime and suffered from arthritis — officer told him he would be \less than a man\ if he allowed her to be brought in
• \[O]urs is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).