C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied. Justice Blackmun took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
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114 L. Ed. 2d 129 · Supreme Court of the United States · May 13, 1991
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Parentheticals
finding gratuitous violence where the victim was stabbed twenty-three times and shot in the ear
“[m]ere advice or exhortation by the police that it would be better for the accused to tell the truth, unaccompanied by either a threat or a promise, does not render a subsequent confession involuntary”
improperly admitted lay opinion testimony concerning similarity of bloody footprint and tread pattern of defendant’s tennis shoe was harmless where photograph of footprint and shoe were both admitted into evidence
state has burden of proving confessions voluntary