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Kansas v. Ventris, No. 07-1356 (U.S. Supreme Court) (556 U.S. 586; 129 S.Ct. 1841) (April 29, 2009) (Justice Scalia)

Loaded on March 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists April 06, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Massiah Rule.

The question before the Court in this case was whether a defendant's voluntary incriminating statements made to a jailhouse informant are admissible to impeach the defendant’s conflicting statements - in a case where the State conceded that the jailhouse interrogation had violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights.

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