United States v. Jerri C. Lewis

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• holding statement voluntary despite fact that defendant had recently returned from surgery on her shoulder, was in pain and had recently received a general anesthetic
• holding voluntary a statement elicited from a suspect just returning from surgery and emerging from the effects of general anesthetic where the suspect was alert, responsive, and unresisting
• reasoning that “the interview on the second day was [not] a continuation of what had occurred on the previous day” as over 24 hours had elapsed between interviews and “[t]he agents did not refer to the fact that she had made a statement the previous day”
• statement voluntary even though defendant recently returned from surgery, was in pain, and recently received anesthetic
• \a trial judge is prohibited from relying on his personal experience to support the taking of judicial notice\

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