Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bracey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 3, 1983No. 80-3-561PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HUTCHINSON, Justice.
A jury convicted appellee of voluntary manslaughter and related charges in connection with the stabbing death of her infant daughter on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1978. The trial court vacated the conviction and granted her a new trial on the ground that her spontaneous statements to police were not voluntary because they were prompted by internal compulsion resulting from her paranoid schizophrenic mental condition. The Commonwealth appealed directly to this Court.1
We hold that neither the Fifth nor Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution nor our own…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Rhode Island v. InnisSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- In Re GAULTSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Malloy v. HoganSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by46 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SepulvedaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2012
- Commonwealth v. HughesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1989
- Commonwealth v. BaezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
- Commonwealth v. D'AmatoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
- Commonwealth v. WhitneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
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