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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2/28/1977

Commonwealth v. Cunningham

Citations

  • 370 A.2d 1172
  • 471 Pa. 577
  • 1977 Pa. LEXIS 612

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that evidence of coercive circumstances surrounding a prior statement was properly deemed irrelevant where the statement challenged by the defendant had been “purged of any prior illegality”
  • holding that evidence of coercive circumstances surrounding a prior statement was properly deemed irrelevant where the statement challenged by the defendant had been \purged of any prior illegality\
  • holding that interview was - 36 - J-S50026-20 not involuntary and noting that “[m]ost significant is the fact that counsel was present and was available to detect and describe even the most subtle coercive and suggestive influences if they in fact had existed”
  • holding that interview was - 36 - J-S50026-20 not involuntary and noting that “[m]ost significant is the fact that counsel was present and was available to detect and describe even the most subtle coercive and suggestive influences if they in fact had existed”
  • noting that a criminal defendant’s consultation with counsel was “an attenuating occurrence” and reliance on counsel’s advice to reaffirm confession after a lengthy, uncounseled police interrogation reinforced the voluntariness of the statement
  • a counselled interrogation preceded by an adequate opportunity to confer with counsel is the kind of attenuating circumstance that dissipates a prior illegality

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Judges: Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino

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