STATE v. THORNTON

No. 2012-KK-0095.

83 So.3d 1024 (2012)

STATE of Louisiana v. Ashleigh THORNTON.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 30, 2012.


PER CURIAM.

Granted. The trial court erred in granting defendant/respondent's motion to suppress on grounds that intoxication rendered her statements to the police involuntary. Although in the past this Court rejected the view in other jurisdictions that "a confession may be involuntary in the due process sense only where the declarant has been subjected to police custody, external pressure or coercion," State v. Glover...

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