State v. Fekete

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a confession is not involuntary because of police coercion unless there is police overreaching
• stating that the validity of a waiver of rights is a separate question from the voluntariness of a confession
• finding that the perpetrator’s intent to kill or injure a specific victim transfers to the unintended victim
• noting that even if an officer’s question was an interrogation, the statements made by the defendant merely repeated what he had stated earlier and their admission was therefore harmless error
• noting that even if an officer's question was an interrogation, the statements made by the defendant merely repeated what he had stated earlier and their admission was therefore harmless error
• stating that since the due process analysis revealed that there was no evidence of intimidation or coercion, the “inquiry focuses on the second element of the waiver”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).