People v. Diercks

How courts have described this case

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• when the clergyman does not object to testifying, the burden is on the person asserting the privilege to show that disclosure is enjoined by the rules or practices of the relevant religion
• confession given after police officer told defendant that anything he said “was between he and I” not involuntary where the promise of confidentiality did not deprive defendant of his free will
• “When the clergyman does not object to testifying the burden is on the person asserting the privilege to show that disclosure is enjoined by the rules or practices of the relevant religion.”
• confession made in presence of police

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).