Court Opinion

ID: 9752960
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 18:47:21.055376+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:27:26.491369
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Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Cohen :
Here, the evidence as to the will-destroying or will-impairing influence upon the confessor is undenied, and is completely established. The inadmissibility of the confession presents a question of law for the court’s summary disposition. See Commonwealth v. Bryant, 367 Pa. 135, 79 A. 2d 193 (1951).
From my analysis of the testimony, I am convinced that the statements of the appellant and the totality of the events that led to the making of the statements violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,