Legal Opinion
State v. McFall
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided September 26, 1967No. 2 CA-CR 74PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOLLOY, Judge.
Richard McFall brings this appeal seeking reversal of his conviction of five counts of obtaining narcotics by fraud or deceit in violation of A.R.S. § 36-1017. The defendant, among his several contentions, raises serious constitutional problems in the area of voluntary confessions and the extent of judicial inquiry mandated to determine the voluntariness of a confession made by a drug addict to the police.
There is surprisingly little disparity in the record as to the “ * * * external, ‘phenomenological’ occurrences and events surrounding the confession.”1 The testimony of the…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Hampton v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1977
- State v. McFallArizona Supreme Court · 1968
- State v. St. JohnSupreme Court of Missouri · 1976
- Robinson v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1984
- Cronin v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1984
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