DueProcess CriminalProcedure Privacy
Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect's family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, renders his ensuing confession involuntary
QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect’s family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, renders his ensuing confession involuntary if he would not have confessed but for the threat or promise. 2. Whether the existence of probable cause to arrest Petitioner's wife for capital murder, if it existed, was sufficient to excuse threats to arrest and charge her with capital murder if Petitioner did not confess to it himself. 3. Whether truthful statements made to Petitioner by police detectives during their interrogation of him were sufficient to excuse threats to arrest and charge his wife with capital murder if he did not confess to it himself. i