Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Confessions
Under totality of circumstances, trickery of detective in telling Defendant that he had “failed” polygraph exam, and in cumulative effect, along with 19-year-old Defendant’s character and circumstances of interrogation, confession to shooting was not voluntary, and thus should have been suppressed as a product of coercion. Defendant had been in custody since 2 p.m. previous day, and confessed at 5 a.m., after intensive interrogation and while under influence of marijuana, had eaten little and was visibly spent. (PUCINSKI, concurring; MASON, dissenting.)