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People v. Whitehead

Citations

  • 238 Mich. App. 1
  • 604 N.W.2d 737

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the admission of a confession, assuming it was improper, was a nonstructural error
  • explaining that the erroneous admission of a confession is a nonstructural, constitutional defect that is subject to harmless-error analysis
  • explaining that the erroneous admission of a confession is a nonstructural, constitutional defect that is subject to harmless-error analysis
  • “Ordinarily the request for a Walker hearing would preserve only arguments regarding the voluntariness of a confession.”
  • a defendant preserves for appeal a challenge to the voluntariness of a confession by requesting a Walker hearing

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Judges: Bandstra, Talbot, Whitbeck

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