Vernon Lee Willis Jr. v. the State of Texas

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• requiring us to examine \totality of the circumstances\ in voluntariness inquiry
• \Commonwealth does not have the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that some third party is not guilty of the charged crime\
• \we defer to the judge's determination of the weight and credibility to be given to oral testimony presented at a motion hearing\
• \[W]e defer to the judge's determination of the weight 6 and credibility to be given to oral testimony presented at a motion hearing\
• no specific instruction necessary where Commonwealth’s burden of proof adequately explained by standard instruction
• no error in judge's refusal to instruct jury that they could not find defendant guilty unless Commonwealth proved that potential third-party culprits could not have committed murder

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