Court Opinion

ID: 9453939
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:29:23.924907+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:53.188583
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KNOCH, Senior Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
The Illinois Supreme Court was evidently satisfied that there was no con*23tinuing effect in the circumstances (whatever they were) surrounding the confession that was made to the Texas authorities. Further, although the police officers who witnessed the confession to the Texas authorities did not testify at the hearing on the motion to suppress the confession made at a later time to the Illinois authorities, the evidence of the statements made by the defendant to the Illinois authorities in response to query as to his prior treatment and the testimony of those Illinois authorities concerning the appearance of the defendant all operate to weaken the “conceded facts” of which the majority speak. These “conceded facts” are such as can easily be reconciled with mental freedom to confess or deny guilt. I would affirm the decision of the District Court.