John Lewis Jones v. Harold J. Cardwell, Superintendent, Arizona State Prison

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• holding that the Fifth Amendment protects defendant against self- incrimination in non-capital case for purposes of increasing sentence based on judicial fact-finding
• “a sentencing judge’s broad discretion to consider information in imposing sentence does not extend to consideration of information obtained in violation of a defendant’s privilege against self-incrimination.”
• fact that defendant was in jail awaiting sentencing is a factor to be considered in determining voluntariness of statements made during PSI interview
• where jailed petitioner was instructed he had no choice but to answer questions put to him by probation officer during PSI, his confession of other crimes, extracted without warning as to the consequences, was a violation of his Fifth Amendment rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).