· 12/21/1979
State v. Amorin
Citations
- 604 P.2d 45
- 61 Haw. 356
- 1979 Haw. LEXIS 173
How courts have described this case
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- 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”
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Judges: Richardson, Ogata, Menor, Kobayashi, Lum, Vacancies
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