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Supreme Court· 6/22/1964

Jackson v. Denno

Citations

  • 378 U.S. 368
  • 84 S. Ct. 1774
  • 12 L. Ed. 2d 908
  • 1964 U.S. LEXIS 826
  • 1 A.L.R. 3d 1205
  • 28 Ohio Op. 2d 177

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a defendant is entitled to a fair determination of the voluntariness of his confession outside the presence of the jury
  • holding that trial judge’s determination of the admissibility of a confession is based on whether the confession was voluntarily given
  • holding that when question is raised about the voluntariness of confession, defendant is entitled to hearing in which voluntariness is determined
  • holding that when question is raised about the voluntariness of confession, defendant is entitled to hearing in which voluntariness is determined
  • holding, on review of jury verdict, that conviction, “founded, in whole or in part, upon an involuntary confession,” violates due process
  • establishing that when an accused contests the admission of his statement as involuntary, due process requires that the trial court hold a hearing outside the presence of the jury to determine its admissibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: White, Black, Harlan, Clark, Stewart

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4,482 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

181 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Jackson v. Denno

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