Legal Opinion
Arizona v. Fulminante
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 20, 1991No. 89-839PublishedCited by 5,182 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*282Justice White
delivered an opinion, Parts I, II, and IV of which are the opinion of the Court, and Part III of which is a dissenting opinion.†
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in this case that respondent Oreste Fulminante’s confession, received in evidence at his trial for murder, had been coerced and that its use against him was barred by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The court also held that the harmless-error rule could not be used to save the conviction. We affirm the judgment of the Arizona court, although for different reasons than those upon which…
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