Tag: involuntary
Posted on February 16, 2025
Anything Officers Say Can and Will Be Used Against Them: The Kansas Court of Appeals Finds Another Instance of a Detective Downplaying Miranda
State v. Reynolds, No. 126,940, 2025 WL 438959 (Kan. Ct. App. Feb. 7, 2025). Author: Hadley Sayers, Staff Editor Issue: Does a detective downplay the significance of the Miranda warning by saying that the warning is just part of their paperwork? Answer: Yes. …
Updated on September 10, 2024
G.O.[ing] Away from McCarther: Kansas’s Reliability Standard as a Test for the Voluntariness of Confessions is Inapposite to the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause.
State v. G.O., No. 124,676, 2024 Kan. LEXIS 23 (Kan. Mar. 1, 2024) Author: Clayton Anderson, Staff Editor Issue: Does Kan. Stat. Ann. § 60-460(f)(2)(B)’s hearsay exception—or its reliability standard—apply when courts decide whether a defendant’s confession to …