State v. Mendacino

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• considering the effect of a 72-hour break in time when the defendant had remained in custody and the officers had continued to question him despite his requests for counsel
• confession excluded where, despite denials of culpability and requests for attorney, officers relentlessly questioned defendant
• later confession inadmissible where “coercive conditions which resulted in * * * [earlier] confessions were not effectively removed”
• later confession inadmissible where “coercive conditions which resulted in *** [earlier] confessions were not effectively removed”
• when detectives “persist[ ] in questioning” after adequate Miranda warnings and obtain confessions, those confessions “partake more of actual coercion” and can affect voluntariness
• later confession inadmissible where “coercive conditions which resulted in * * * [earlier] confessions were not effectively removed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).