Kennedy v. State

I am not persuaded that the confession of the defendant ought to be clothed with *95the mantle of voluntariness. There are circumstances present which give rise to serious doubt. I will agree at the outset that the facts here in certain respects can be distinguished from the precise holding of the United States Supreme Court in Escobedo v. State of Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S.Ct. 1758, 12 L.Ed.2d 977—which is with us — and that the important new safeguards laid down in Miranda v. State of Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694—decided subsequent to the instant trial — need not…