People v. Dowdell

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecution committed misconduct by stating defendant “ha[d] gotten his fair trial” in closing argument
• ‘‘[a] threat by [the] police to arrest or punish a close relative, or a promise to free the relative in exchange for a confession, may render an admission invalid’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).