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· 11/10/2014

State of Tennessee v. Henry Floyd Sanders

Citations

  • 452 S.W.3d 300
  • 2014 Tenn. LEXIS 912

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding the Petitioner’s statements were a product of “misplaced trust” and his will was 12 not overborne
  • “[Neither the Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendment protects a suspect who voluntarily offers information to a confidant. ... ”
  • ―[N]either the Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendment protects a suspect who voluntarily offers information to a confidant. . . .‖
  • ―[N]either the Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendment protects a suspect who voluntarily offers information to a confidant. . . .‖
  • “[T]he actions of a private person may be attributed to the government when the private person acts in concert with government authorities in pursuit of the same design or purpose.”
  • “These constitutional provisions are not concerned „with moral or psychological pressures to confess emanating from sources other than official coercion.‟” (Quoting United States v. Erving L., 147 F.3d 1240, 1247 (10th Cir.1998))

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Judges: Koch, Lee, Holder, Clark, Wade

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