1. Does the admission of Coerced Statements by Non-defendant Witnesses deprive a defendant of Due Process of law, when they are used during trial as substantive evidence of an accused guilt. This question was posed, but left unanswered by this Court in Turner v. Pennsylvania, 338 U.S. 62, (1949), by such issue. ABLE WITNESSES. Since then, the First and Ninth circuit hold that placing in evidence a coerced statement of a witness in a criminal case who is not a defendant or a parental defendant nevertheless violates a constitutional right of defendant. Though obviously not the right not to be forced to incriminate himself, other jurisdictions, such as the State of Wisconsin, and the Fifth circuit cause such a statement only

Whether the admission of coerced statements by non-defendant witnesses deprives a defendant of due process of law when used as substantive evidence of guilt