No. 24-6514

Phillip Jason Garrett v. Kansas

Lower Court: Kansas
Docketed: 2025-02-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: confession-voluntariness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-deception law-enforcement-tactics miranda-warnings
Key Terms:
DueProcess CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2025-03-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether law enforcement quasi-legal representations about a truth verification machine's accuracy, combined with deceptive interrogation tactics and minimization of Miranda warnings, render a confession involuntary under the totality of the circumstances analysis of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Does law enforcement quasi -legal represent ations that a truth verification machine is 100% accurate , combined with numerous acts of deception during a police interrogation including minimization of Miranda warnings, implied promises of lenience combined with implied threats for not cooperating wit h law enforcement all made to a suspect that is under stress and fatigued render the resulting confession involuntary under this Court’s totality of the circumstances analysis of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment s?

Docket Entries

2025-03-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-03-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/21/2025.
2025-03-03
Waiver of right of respondent Kansas to respond filed.
2024-12-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 12, 2025)

Attorneys

Kansas
Anthony John PowellOffice of the Kansas Attorney General, Respondent
Phillip Garrett
Randall Lee HodgkinsonKansas Appellate Defender Off., Petitioner