Johnson v. Trigg, (S.D.Ind. 1993)

1 Citing case

  1. Johnson v. Trigg

    28 F.3d 639 (7th Cir. 1994)   Cited 52 times
    Concluding that a promise to release the suspect's mother from custody if he confesses does not make his statement involuntary if the police have good ground for holding the mother

    The district judge in this habeas corpus proceeding held, on the basis of the record of the criminal proceeding in state court, that Norman Johnson's robbery conviction, upheld in Johnson v. State, 513 N.E.2d 650 (Ind. 1987), had been based on a coerced confession. She ordered the State of Indiana either to release or retry him. 839 F. Supp. 571 (S.D.Ind. 1993). The facts, at least as narrated by the district judge (a potentially important qualification), are indeed suggestive of a grave abuse of power by law enforcement authorities.