No. 21-6996
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation-procedure police-interrogation right-to-silence
Latest Conference:
2022-03-04
Question Presented (from Petition)
Is a suspect's Constitutional Amendments V as well as XIV rights violated when a clear and unambiguous invocation to remain silent is ignored? Additionally, would evidentiary specific benefits related to the case, and to what extent police may use promises and lies to extract a confession from a suspect before rendering it involuntary, unreliable, and violating their Constitutional Amendments V as well as XV rights?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the police violated a suspect's constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when they ignored clear and unambiguous invocations of the right to remain silent and used promises of leniency to extract a confession that was involuntary, unreliable, and violated the suspect's constitutional rights
Docket Entries
2022-03-07
Petition DENIED.
2022-02-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
2022-02-16
Waiver of right of respondent Illinois to respond filed.
2022-01-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 28, 2022)
Attorneys
Illinois
Robert Stivers
Robert Stivers — Petitioner