Leza v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination “is not concerned ‘with moral and psychological pressures to confess emanating from sources other than official coercion.’ If the appellant’s [drug] use . . . alone impelled him to confess, that is of no constitutional consequence.”
• relying on officer’s testimony in holding statement was voluntarily given
• appellate court may not consider extra-record materials
• question of legislative intent behind penal provision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).