PEOPLE v. NEAL

No. S106440.

1 Cal.Rptr.3d 650 (2003)

31 Cal.4th 63

72 P.3d 280

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Kenneth Ray NEAL, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 14, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor J. Morse, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant.

John T. Philipsborn, San Francisco, and Charles D. Weisselberg, for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice as Amicus Curiae on behalf Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Louis Vasquez, Janet Neeley, Robert P. Whitlock and Lloyd G. Carter, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


GEORGE, C.J.

It long has been settled under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that an involuntary statement obtained by a law enforcement officer from a criminal suspect by coercion is inadmissible in a criminal proceeding. (See, e.g., Brown v. Mississippi (1936) 297 U.S. 278, 285-286, 56 S.Ct. 461, 80 L.Ed. 682.) In Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436...

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