Beecher v. Alabama

1 Citing brief

  1. USA v. Graham

    RESPONSE to Motion

    Filed March 20, 2014

    Connelly, 479 U.S. at 167. Such coercion has been found where the suspect was subjected to severe physical abuse, see Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278 (1936); held incommunicado and questioned for over thirty-six hours without sleep or rest, see Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 322 U.S. 143 (1944); given “truth serums,” see Townsend v. Sain, 372 U.S. 293 (1963); or threatened with a loaded gun while wounded, see Beecher v. Alabama, 389 U.S. 35 (1967). A deficient mental condition (whether the result of a pre-existing mental illness or, for example, pain killing narcotics administered after emergency treatment) is not, without more, enough to render a waiver involuntary.