James Arnold Smith v. Jack R. Duckworth, and the Indiana Attorney General

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• indicating that a confession was involuntary where officers threatened to return defendant to cell containing individuals he had implicated
• considering defendant’s “reduced mental capacity” as among the circumstances rendering his - 23 - confession involuntary
• finding insufficient prejudice for dismissal under Rule 9(a) where the testimony of witnesses had been recorded at a suppression hearing before they died
• considering defendant’s “reduced mental capacity” as among the circumstances rendering his confession involuntary

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