People v. Ward

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a murder confession obtained as a result of a violation of the clergy privilege was nevertheless voluntary, and was not the “fruit of the poisonous tree”
• fruit of poisonous tree doctrine not applied to suppress evidence flowing from privileged communication between clergy and penitent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Burnidge
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 18×
• United States v. Benner
  Army Court of Criminal Appeals· 2001-07-05· cited 4×
• People v. Bolson
  New York Supreme Court· 1999-11-17· cited 3×