Supreme Court· 6/19/1961

Culombe v. Connecticut

Citations

367 U.S. 568
81 S. Ct. 1860
6 L. Ed. 2d 1037
1961 U.S. LEXIS 811

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holding that confession made after four nights and five days during which defendant was questioned repeatedly was not voluntary and denied defendant due process of law
holding that confession made after four nights and five days during which defendant was questioned repeatedly was not voluntary and denied defendant due process of law
holding involuntary the confession extracted from a “thirty-three-year-old mental defective ... with an intelligence quotient of sixty-four”
finding a cognitively impaired man's confession was coerced and improperly admitted at trial where officers pressured his wife and children to coax him into confessing
“keeping of prisoners unclothed ... for long periods during questioning” characterized as an “obvious crude device” of coercion
setting out pre-Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), standards for determining whether a statement was “coerced”

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Judges: Black, Brennan, Clark, Douglas, Frankfurter, Harlan, Warren, Whittaker

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