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· 12/21/1979

State v. Amorin

Citations

  • 604 P.2d 45
  • 61 Haw. 356
  • 1979 Haw. LEXIS 173

How courts have described this case

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

  • custodial interrogations contain “inherently compelling pressures which work to undermine the individual’s will to resist and to compel [them] to speak where [they] would not otherwise do so freely.”
  • judgment of conviction vacated because trial court’s error in admitting Amorin’s illegally obtained confession “raised the reasonable possibility of having contributed to the conviction below; we cannot say that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Richardson, Ogata, Menor, Kobayashi, Lum, Vacancies

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