Holbrook v. Lackey

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that voluntariness inquiry takes into account a defendant’s personal characteristics, including physical and mental health
• stating that an out-of-court confession is presumed to be involun- tary
• analyzing the voluntariness of a statement as a question of law
• “[T]he voluntariness of an admission or confession depends on whether or not, in the totality of the circumstances, a defendant’s free will was overborne and his or her capacity for self-determination was critically impaired.”
• requir- ing the state to prove that a “defendant’s free will was not overborne and his capacity for self-determination was not critically impaired, and that he made his statements with- out inducement from fear or promises”
• “[T]he voluntariness of an admission or confession depends on whether or not, in the totality of the circumstances, a defendant’s free will was overborne and his or her capacity for self-determination was critically impaired.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).