People v. Lettrich

How courts have described this case

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• improper to exclude confession of third party on hearsay grounds when defendant’s conviction rested on his repudiated confession obtained under duress.
• common law should not be followed where “justice demands a departure”
• murder prosecution; third-party confession; “special circumstances” rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).