Snipes v. Tennessee

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the defendant’s ar- gument that his statements were involuntary because an agent acted as a translator
• “A foundational principle of due process of law is that the state cannot procure a criminal conviction through the use of an involuntary confession.”
• “A foundational principle of due process of law is that the state cannot procure a criminal conviction through the use of an involuntary confession.”
• habeas court may dispose of claim on merits even when procedural issues lurk in background
• “Failure to raise a losing argument, whether at trial or on appeal, does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.” (quoting Stone v. Farley, 86 F.3d 712, 717 (7th Cir. 1996))
• court may reject collateral attack on the merits without addressing procedural defenses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).