Renner v. State

The principal contention of the state public defender on this appeal is that the statement's of both Carol and Lloyd were involuntary. It is his contention that under the ruling of Jackson v. Denno (1964), 378 U. S. 368, 84 Sup. Ct. 1774, 12 L. Ed. 2d 908, A. L. R. 2d 1205, and State ex rel. Goodchild v. Burke (1965), 27 Wis. 2d 244, 133 N. W. 2d 753, it was the duty of the court to make a preliminary determination of the voluntariness of the statements. 1 Whether these statements are voluntary is governed by the “totality of the circumstances” test which we discussed in detail in Bradley v.…