Frank Andrew McCall v. Michael Dutton and W.J. Michael Cody

How courts have described this case

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• noting that \proof of police coercion is a threshold requirement\
• “it is noteworthy that [the defendant’s] denials were consistently exculpatory and he persistently identified [another] as the individual who shot and killed [the victim]”
• the absence of Miranda warnings is one factor to be considered in assessing the voluntariness of a confession
• \This court must presume that state court subsidiary findings of historical fact are correct\
• defendant failed to prove that his will was overborne where defendant had a college education and displayed mental acuity prior to interrogation by driving a number of miles down a winding road
• display of weapons during interrogation, absent evidence that it was intended to extort a confession from accused was not coercive; shouting and confusion at time of arrest did not by itself constitute coercion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).