confession-voluntariness

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6514 Phillip Jason Garrett v. Kansas Kansas 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession-voluntariness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-deception law-enforcement-tactics miranda-warnings Whether law enforcement quasi-legal representations about a truth verification machine's accuracy, combined with deceptive interrogation tactics and m…
22-6900 Tony Deng v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-search coercion confession-voluntariness deception-tactics due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-interrogation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy right-to-counsel will-overborne-standard Whether the 'will overborne' standard or analysis should be used to evaluate the voluntariness of a confession obtained by trickery and deception
22-5781 Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-voluntariness custody-determination due-process law-enforcement-procedure miranda miranda-rights race racial-discrimination voluntariness Whether a court can take a defendant's race into account to determine whether the defendant's custody, and thus his subsequent un-Mirandized confessio…
21-6563 Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida Florida 2021-12-09 Denied IFP 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 Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's 'essential link' between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a 'mo…
20-7174 Antonio Lopez v. Texas Texas 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process family-coercion family-member interrogation police-interrogation probable-cause truthful-statements 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, rende…
20-6708 Tony Decloues v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-voluntariness due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the court of appeal should have granted COA where the district court employed a constitutionally impermissible standard in evaluating the volu…
19-7310 Michael Charles Smith v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-confession medication-effects medication-impairment mental-capacity narcotic-medication physical-condition psychological-coercion voluntariness Whether a conviction resulting from a confession that was not freely and voluntarily given due to the accused's physical condition and impact of narco…
18-6432 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-voluntariness consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation interrogation-circumstances involuntary law-enforcement-tactics totality-of-the-circumstances young-adult Whether Due Process allows federal agents to obtain a confession and a consent to search from an immature, young adult that has been startled awake by…
18-6258 Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel…