Court Opinion

ID: 9705458
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:07:08.905645+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:11.613355
License: Public Domain

DeBRULER, Justice,
concurring in result.
The State bears the burden to prove the voluntariness of a confession when a hearing is held upon a motion to suppress a confession based upon a claim of involuntariness. The majority opinion accepts this principle, but limits it, relying upon Wiseheart v. State (1986), Ind., 491 N.E.2d 985, by placing a burden upon the defendant at such a hearing in the trial court to establish involuntariness due to drugs. I concurred in the Wiseheart opinion as well as its like predecessor, Mulligan v. State (1986), Ind., 487 N.E.2d 1309. I now find that I can no longer agree with this formulation, as it is contrary to the general constitutional principle that the State must establish voluntariness when that issue is raised and litigated as it was in this case.
DICKSON, J., concurs.