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· 11/2/1982

State v. Zehner

Citations

  • 453 A.2d 1126
  • 142 Vt. 251
  • 1982 Vt. LEXIS 631

How courts have described this case

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  • ultimate question is whether police conduct or tactics caused defendant's will to be overborne and his capacity for self-determination to be critically impaired
  • ultimate question is whether police conduct or tactics caused defendant’s will to be overborne and his capacity for self-determination to be critically impaired
  • “A criminal defendant is denied due process of law if [a] conviction is founded in whole or in part upon an involuntary confession regardless of its truth or falsity.” (quotation omitted)

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Judges: Billings, Hill, Underwood, Peck, Daley

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