Matter of Attorneys in Violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a (Goetz)

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• holding that confession made after four nights and five days during which defendant was questioned repeatedly was not voluntary and denied defendant due process of law
• holding that confession made after four nights and five days during which defendant was questioned repeatedly was not voluntary and denied defendant due process of law
• holding involuntary the confession extracted from a “thirty-three-year-old mental defective ... with an intelligence quotient of sixty-four”
• finding a cognitively impaired man's confession was coerced and improperly admitted at trial where officers pressured his wife and children to coax him into confessing
• “keeping of prisoners unclothed ... for long periods during questioning” characterized as an “obvious crude device” of coercion
• setting out pre-Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), standards for determining whether a statement was “coerced”

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