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Lanier v. South Carolina, 474 U.S. 25 (1985)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Lanier v. South Carolina, 474 U.S. 25 (1985)
Lanier v. South Carolina No. 85-5260 Decided November 4, 1985 474 U.S. 25
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF
APPEALS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
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Petitioner, who was convicted of armed robbery, contended that the South Carolina trial court should have suppressed his confession as being the product of an illegal arrest. The South Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court, holding that, even assuming petitioner’s arrest was illegal, the confession was admissible because voluntariness was the test of admissibility and petitioner did not claim that his confession was not voluntary.
Held: The South Carolina Court of Appeals’ judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded, because the court’s reasoning is inconsistent with well-established precedent holding that a finding of voluntariness of a confession for Fifth Amendment purposes is not, by itself, sufficient to purge the taint of an illegal arrest, but is merely a threshold requirement for Fourth Amendment analysis.
Certiorari granted; vacated and remanded.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Lanier v. South Carolina, 474 U.S. 25 (1985) in 474 U.S. 25 Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RKTTV8HVKB2QHN5.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Lanier v. South Carolina, 474 U.S. 25 (1985), in 474 U.S. 25, Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RKTTV8HVKB2QHN5.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Lanier v. South Carolina, 474 U.S. 25 (1985). cited in 1985, 474 U.S. 25. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RKTTV8HVKB2QHN5.
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