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· 5/28/1996

Linares v. State

Citations

  • 471 S.E.2d 208
  • 266 Ga. 812
  • 96 Fulton County D. Rep. 2024
  • 1996 Ga. LEXIS 256

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding no issue of juror confusion when two co-defendants were tried together and presented antagonistic defenses
  • finding no issue of juror confusion when two co-defendants were tried together and presented antagonistic defenses
  • statements made after invocation of right to counsel and in response to police-initiated questioning were involuntary
  • Supreme Court has applied harmless error analysis to the admission of involuntary confessions
  • “[s]ince the record fails to establish that [the defendant] would have testified in his own defense if the trial court had ruled his statement was inadmissible, any review of his constitutional claim would be speculative”
  • “The issue [of voluntariness] presents a mixed question of fact and law.”

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Judges: Fletcher, Sears

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