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Criminal Procedure Keyed to Dressler
Arizona v. Fulminante
Citation:
499 U.S. 279, 111 S.Ct. 1246, 113 L.Ed.2d 302.Only StudyBuddy Pro offers the complete Case Brief Anatomy*
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The defendant’s 11-year-old step daughter was murdered in Arizona. The defendant’s statements to police concerning her disappearance and his relationship with her contained a number of inconsistencies, and he became a suspect in her killing. However, no charges were brought at the time. He was later arrested for something else.
While in prison, he became friends with an inmate named Anthony Sarivola. Sarivola passed on information that the defendant told him to the FBI, and the FBI instructed the Sarivola to find out more. Sarivola offered to protect the defendant from other inmates if he told him about the murder. The defenendat then admitted to Sarivola that he had sexually assailed and murdered the girl.
The defendant filed a motion to suppress his confession. The trial court denied his motion, and he was found guilty. He appealed, and the Supreme Court of Arizona found that the confession was coerced and that its admission violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court reversed and held that the defendant should be retried without the use of his confession. The State appealed.
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