State v. Mauchley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that \[it is beyond dispute\ that some defendants falsely confess
• noting that “the federal courts and a growing number of state courts” have rejected the common law corpus delicti rule in favor of the “trustworthiness standard” applied to the admission of the defendant’s confession
• noting that \the federal courts and a growing number of state courts\ have rejected the common law corpus delicti rule in favor of the \trustworthiness standard\ applied to the admission of the defendant's confession
• providing inappropriate sexual contact with a young child as an example of the former and infant homicide by suffocation as an example of the latter
• describing the rule as “ill-suited” to detecting false confessions because the rule “focuses solely on whether a crime occurred instead of on whether a confession was true or false”
• treating the trustworthiness standard as a rule governing the admissibility of confessions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).