United States v. David Carl Rimka

Appellant Rimka was convicted after jury trial on a charge of armed robbery of a bank, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) (1970). His principal complaint on appeal is that the District Court, after hearing a motion to suppress evidence, admitted into evidence a confession which he made on the second day after his arrest.

It was appellant’s contention that this confession was inadmissible because it was involuntary in that it was the product of duress represented by a promise of treatment for withdrawal symptoms which he was suffering on the day of his confession. He also contends that his…