Legal Opinion
Lego v. Twomey
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 12, 1972No. 70-5037PublishedCited by 1,818 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
In 1964 this Court held that a criminal defendant who challenges the voluntariness of a confession made to officials and sought to be used against him at his trial has a due process right to a reliable determination that the confession was in fact voluntarily given and not the outcome of coercion which the Constitution forbids. Jackson v. Denno, 378 U. S. 368. While our decision made plain that only voluntary confessions may be admitted at the trial of guilt or innocence, we did not then announce, or even suggest, that the factfinder at a coercion hearing need judge voluntariness with…
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