Phillips v. Dretke

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• holding that defendant's confession was voluntary, notwithstanding his belief that his statement was sought as a witness rather than a defendant
• holding “evidence and inferences to be drawn from the evidence were sufficient for the jury to determine that the confession was trustworthy”
• holding \evidence and inferences to be drawn from the evidence were sufficient for the jury to determine that the confession was trustworthy\
• invalidating defendant’s sentence where a co-defendant charged with the same or similar crime received slightly less onerous terms
• upholding confession despite defendant's allegation that police deceived him into thinking he was only giving statement as a witness as there was no evidence that the statement \was not the product of `an essentially free and unconstrained choice.'\
• jury need not agree on whether defendant was a principal or accomplice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).