United States v. William Howard Newman

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• finding evidence of an impaired “cognitive or volitional capacity is never, by itself, sufficient to warrant the conclusion that his confession was involuntary for purposes of due process; some element of police coercion is always necessary.”
• defendant's mental incapacity due to alcoholism, even if it rendered him incapable of understanding significance of his statements to FBI agents, was insufficient to establish that statements were involuntary absent showing of misconduct by agents

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