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State v. Holcomb

Citations

  • 159 P.3d 1271
  • 213 Or. App. 168
  • 2007 Ore. App. LEXIS 744
  • 2007 WL 1545645

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that “a criminal defendant’s own statements regarding the crime are especially persuasive and potentially more likely to affect the jury’s verdict than other sources of the same information”
  • noting that, following an unequivocal invocation of the right to remain silent or the right to counsel, “[t]he opportunity to resume interrogating the suspect varies depending on which right the suspect unequivocally invokes”
  • analyzing whether erroneous admission of the defendant’s statements required reversal of the defendant’s convictions, even in the absence of any party arguments regarding harmlessness
  • “We recognize that, in many instances, a criminal defendant’s own statements regarding the crime are especially persuasive and potentially more likely to affect the jury’s verdict than other sources of the same information.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Edmonds, Armstrong, Wollheim

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