No. 21-6563

Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2021-12-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: coerced-confessions coercive-police-activity colorado-v-connelly confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement-threats motivating-cause police-misconduct probable-cause quid-pro-quo voluntariness
Key Terms:
DueProcess CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2022-02-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's 'essential link' between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a 'motivating cause' test or a more stringent 'quid pro quo' bargain test?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly’s “essential link” between coercive police activity and a suspect’s confession is a “motivating cause” test or a more stringent “quid pro quo” bargain test? 2. Subsidiary Question: Where law enforcement has made threats to arrest a family member and those threats have been conveyed to the suspect, is the appropriate inquiry to determine the voluntariness of a suspect’s subsequent confession whether the officers had probable cause to lawfully carry out such threats? i

Docket Entries

2022-02-22
Petition DENIED.
2022-01-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
2022-01-24
Reply of petitioner Hector Sanchez-Torres filed.
2022-01-10
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2021-12-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 10, 2022)
2021-09-27
Application (21A46) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until December 1, 2021.
2021-09-21
Application (21A46) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 3, 2021 to December 1, 2021, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Hector Sanchez-Torres
Karin Lee MooreCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Northern Division, Petitioner
Karin Lee MooreCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Northern Division, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent