Tennyson v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the appellant’s statement, “I didn’t kill that man. He was trying to rob me,” after an officer informed him during booking that he was charged with murder, was made spontaneously and therefore properly admitted
• “In the absence of a contemporaneous objection, a mistrial motion is untimely and will not be considered on appeal”
• voluntary, spontaneous outbursts that are not made in response to any form of custodial questioning or interrogation are admissible at trial
• defendant's inculpatory response to being informed of the charges against him was not the product of police interrogation
• defendant’s inculpatory response to being informed of the charges against him was not the product of police interrogation
• \`There is no burden on State officials to prevent [a] defendant from talking about the incident if he wishes to do so. Simply stated they must not interrogate but they need not refuse to listen.'\ (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).