J. Bark v. Sooner Steel, LLC (WCAB)

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing video evidence de novo and stating that “lower court findings based on documentary evidence available to an appellate court are not entitled to deference”
• reviewing video evidence de novo and stating that “lower court findings based on documentary evidence available to an appellate court are not entitled to deference”
• “lower court findings based on documentary evidence available to an appellate court are not entitled to deference”
• statement involuntary where police officers repeatedly said interview was only chance for defendant to tell story
• misstatement of “fifth” Miranda warning came at beginning of interview and did not render subsequent statements involuntary
• misrepresentation of defendant’s right to defend himself at trial, by officer’s incessantly repeated statement that defendant must tell his side of story “now-or-never,” irretrievably tainted defendant’s subsequent confession, rendering it involuntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).