State v. Corns

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• holding that testimony from officers conceding they told the defendant his wife could be arrested and his children could be taken from him did amount to improper influence
• holding the listing on a return of the items seized pursuant to a search warrant is a ministerial act
• holding defendant's statement inadmissible because it was \made in response to threats that his wife could be arrested and his children taken by D.S.S.\
• explaining the defendant's confession was involuntary when it was given only after the interviewing officer threatened the defendant's wife and children
• finding officers' testimony that they told the defendant his wife could be arrested and their children could be taken from them amounted to improper influence rendering his statement involuntary
• upholding a warrant based on an affidavit whose factual basis was sixty days old and noting that in looking at the totality of the circumstances a magistrate may consider the characteristics, including the consumable and incriminating nature, of the items sought in the warrant

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