United States v. Larry P. Bradshaw

How courts have described this case

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• observing that Connelly holds that \police coercion is a necessary prerequisite to a determination that a waiver was involuntary\
• observing that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment\ requires that a confession be voluntary quite apart from whether or not Miranda's prophylactic procedures are followed\
• “As with all other issues, in order to preserve for appeal an argument for departure from the guidelines, a defendant must press that specific argument before the district court.”
• \We read Connelly . . . as holding only that police coercion is a necessary prerequisite to a determination that a waiver was involuntary and not as bearing on the separate question whether the waiver was knowing and intelligent.\
• “We read Connelly . . . as holding only that police coercion is a necessary prerequisite to a determination that a waiver was involuntary and not as bearing on the separate question whether the waiver was knowing and intelligent.”
• “A confession is inadmissible as a matter of due process if under the totality of the circumstances it was involuntarily obtained (for example, if the police beat a confession out of an individual after he validly waives his Miranda rights).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).