Nunn v. Cupp

In this post-conviction proceeding petitioner alleges it was error to admit his confession into evidence in his 1956 murder trial because (1) as a procedural matter the admissibility of the confession was not determined under the proper standard, and (2) as a substantive matter his confession was not voluntary. The lower court decided these contentions adversely to petitioner and he has appealed.

During petitioner’s 1956 trial the state offered both a confession petitioner had personally written shortly after his arrest in California and an oral confession petitioner had made to police…