DueProcess FifthAmendment CriminalProcedure
Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy's statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignored his request to stop the interrogation, the police did not provide counsel when he asked for an attorney, and the police explicitly denied his requests to contact his mother to obtain counsel violates the boy's right to due process and against self-incrimination?
QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy’s statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignored his request to stop the interrogation, the police did not provide counsel when he asked for an attorney, and the police explicitly denied his requests to contact his mother to obtain counsel violates the boy’s right to due process and against self-incrimination? U.S. Const. amend. V, U.S. Const. amend. XIV; See Jackson v. Denno, 378 U.S. 368, 376 (1964)(Gnternal citations omitted)(“It is now axiomatic that a defendant in a criminal case is deprived of due process of law if his conviction is founded, in whole or in part, upon an involuntary confession.”) i