State v. Garrett

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 124,329 STATE OF KANSAS, Appellant, v. PHILLIP JASON GARRETT, Appellee. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. The protections of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, made applicable to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, prohibit the State from relying on coerced or involuntary statements to establish a defendant's guilt. But these protections do not justify evidentiary suppression of confessions that are either unrelated to law enforcement tactics, or are connected to, but not causally related to, law…