CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-DUE PROCESS OF LAW-ADMISSIBILITY OF CONFESSIONS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

Authors

Harold G. Christensen S.Ed., University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

The Supreme Court announced in 1936 that under certain circumstances the admission of a confession into evidence by a state court could amount to a denial of due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Since that time there has been an increasing number of appeals seeking reversal of a conviction upon that ground and an expansion by the Court of the types of factual situations which will render a confession inadmissible. That this expansion reached its apex with the case of Watts v. Indiana and companion cases decided in 1949 appears probable in the light of a recent denial of certiorari on facts similar to the Watts case. Considering this factor and also the intervening change in court personnel, it seems appropriate to re-examine the issue of admissibility of confessions under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Recommended Citation

Harold G. Christensen S.Ed., CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-DUE PROCESS OF LAW-ADMISSIBILITY OF CONFESSIONS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, 50 Mich. L. Rev. 567 (1952).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol50/iss4/5