Robert Green v. Charles Scully, Superintendent of the Green Haven Correctional Facility

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• holding that police tactics “considered together did not overbear [the defendant’s] will and bring about his confession”
• holding that, under the totality of the circumstances test, defendant = s statement was voluntary, despite officer = s false statement that fingerprints at the scene matched defendant = s
• stating that officer's false representation of fingerprint match \makes the issue of voluntariness in this case such a close one\ but, nevertheless, finding confession voluntary
• concluding confession voluntary where , inter alia , petitioner \was not handcuffed at any time during the interrogation\
• finding that the conditions of interrogation did not suggest that defendant's will was overborne where defendant was questioned for several hours in a police precinct
• noting that the relevant “characteristics of the accused” include his “experience and background”

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