Townsend v. Chas. H. Heer Dry Goods Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that state constitution, which offered greater protection than federal constitution with respect to voluntariness, did not apply absent state action
• holding that state constitution, which offered greater protection than federal constitution with respect to voluntariness, did not apply absent state action
• upholding trial court’s ruling that a confession was voluntary where, among other things, “there was no evidence that the defendant needed or was deprived of food”
• explaining relevant to no custody finding that defendant requested interview, drove himself to the interview, and on prior day had requested and received permission to leave
• explaining relevant to no custody finding that defendant requested interview, drove himself to the interview, and on prior day had requested and received permission to leave
• defendant’s statement that he “wantfed] to go home” suggests “that the defendant himself believed that he could have left if he so chose”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).