Jerry Lane Jurek v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent

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• holding that a previous Supreme Court holding that a statute is constitutionally valid _ onits face does not preclude an as-applied challenge to the statute
• “This is, necessarily, a case-by-case endeavor. We must weigh the totality of the circumstances and examine their impact on [the defendant]____ We must determine whether the sum of the circumstances compels a finding of involuntariness.”
• a factor cited by the Court in holding that Jurek’s first confession was voluntary
• issue of interplay between Wainwright and substantive prejudice requirement not reached
• see 5th Cir. Rule 17.
• see 5th Cir. Rule 17.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).