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· 4/23/1969

Frazier v. Cupp

Citations

  • 394 U.S. 731
  • 89 S. Ct. 1420
  • 22 L. Ed. 2d 684
  • 1969 U.S. LEXIS 1870

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that officer's lie-that co-defendant confessed-did not render defendant's confession involuntary without other coercive factors, such as a promise of leniency
  • holding interrogator’s misrepresentation to suspect that his co-suspect had already confessed did not render suspect’s subsequent confession coerced
  • holding interrogator’s misrepresentation to suspect that his co-suspect had already confessed did not render suspect’s subsequent confession involuntary
  • noting that misrepresentation by law enforcement is a relevant consideration in the totality-of-the-eircum-stances assessment
  • fabricating a co-conspirator’s confession is relevant, but “insufficient in our view to make this otherwise voluntary confession inadmissible”
  • rejecting defendant’s argument that because consenter had permission to use only one compartment in bag, he did not have authority to consent to search of entire bag

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Judges: Marshall, Warren, Douglas, Fortas

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