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Crain v. State

Citations

  • 736 N.E.2d 1223
  • 2000 Ind. LEXIS 978
  • 2000 WL 1575791

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  • noting that the trial court was not obligated to present a jury instruction regarding the voluntariness of defendant’s statements
  • reviewing totality of the circumstances to ensure that waiver was “not induced by violence, threats, or other improper influences that overcame the defendant’s free will”
  • finding no evidence of violence, threats, promises, or improper influence regarding the defendant’s 10 confession
  • where defendant in murder case 22 “went beyond merely denying the charged culpability and affirmatively presented a claim of particular contrary intent—accidental killing[,]” evidence of prior batteries against the victim were admissible

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Judges: Sullivan, Shepard, Dickson, Boehm, Rucker

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