Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Santo Caminito, Relator-Appellant v. Robert E. Murphy, as Warden of Auburn Prison, State of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 11, 1955No. 251, Docket 23492PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK, Circuit Judge.
The sole evidence of Caminito’s guilt consisted of his signed pre-trial confessions. At the trial, his counsel timely objected to their admission, and moved to strike them on the ground that they had been unconstitutionally procured; he also moved to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the State had not proved Caminito guilty. Caminito testified that the police had coerced the confessions. The trial judge left to the jury the question whether the confessions had been thus induced. The jury, by returning a verdict of guilt, found that they were voluntary.
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