Supreme Court· 6/15/1953

Stein v. New York

Citations

346 U.S. 156
73 S. Ct. 1077
97 L. Ed. 2d 1522
1953 U.S. LEXIS 1901
97 L. Ed. 1522

How courts have described this case

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holding that use of physical force by interrogators creates heavy presumption, if not per se rule, that there has been a violation of due process
noting that per se involuntariness rule applies when an interrogation is accompanied by physical violence
noting “tendency of the innocent, as well as the guilty, to risk remote results of a false confession rather than suffer immediate pain ... ”
asking jurors whether the value of stolen property was more or less than $100
When physical violence is present, “there is no need to weigh or measure its effects on the will of the individual victim.”
no criminal confession is ever voluntary in sense that a defendant wants to make it

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Judges: Jackson, Douglas, Frankfurter, Court'S, Black

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