State v. Gorton

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting the defendant’s argument that “[a]bsent a recording of defendant’s statements and absent a finding that a tape recording was not feasible, ... the admission of defendant’s statements [is] reversible error”
• refusing to adopt a constitutional rule requiring the taping of custodial interrogations
• refusing to adopt a constitutional rule requiring the taping of custodial interrogations
• “This Court has never previously held that the Vermont Constitution mandates tape-recording of a suspect’s voluntary statements as a requirement of due process, nor does our reading of the Vermont Constitution find any support for defendant’s position.”
• state constitution does not mandate recording of suspect’s statements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).