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Illinois Supreme Court· 8/17/1987

People v. White

Citations

  • 512 N.E.2d 677
  • 117 Ill. 2d 194
  • 111 Ill. Dec. 288
  • 1987 Ill. LEXIS 207

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  • stating that “confrontation with untainted evidence, which induces in the defendant a voluntary desire to confess, may be a legitimate intervening circumstance”
  • holding codefendant’s mere presence in police station, absent any suggestion that the defendant believed or knew that his codefendant had implicated him in the crime, could not constitute an intervening circumstance
  • holding co-defendant's mere presence in police station, absent any suggestion that the defendant believed or knew that his co-defendant had implicated him in the crime, could not constitute an intervening circumstance
  • noting “[t]he temporal proximity between an arrest and a confession is often an ambiguous factor, the significance of which will depend upon the particular circumstances of a particular case”
  • stating the voluntariness of the consent -7- is a question of fact determined from the totality of the circumstances and the State bears the burden of proving the consent was truly voluntary
  • stating the voluntariness of the consent is a question of fact determined from the totality of the circumstances and the State bears the burden of proving the consent was truly voluntary

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Judges: Clark, Simon

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