United States v. John Reginald Rohrbach

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• rejecting claim of involuntary confession where, inter alia, federal agents testified that petitioner was “lucid and able to communicate” at the time of the interrogation
• “Connelly makes it clear that such personal characteristics of the defendant are constitutionally irrelevant absent proof of coercion brought to bear on the defendant by the State”
• district court's finding of no coercion implicitly rejected claim that drug dependency and psychosis caused defendant's will to be overborne
• statement cannot be involuntary unless extorted from accused by coercive means
• in determining that defendant’s waiver was knowing and intelligent, the court found persuasive the fact that his history of arrests, convictions, and reform school made him quite familiar with the criminal justice system

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