Case note by Angela Beam
This Note provides background on Louisiana’s confession jurisprudence and highlights a recent shift toward increasingly pro-defendant case law. It explores the court’s assessment of Ms. Hebert’s detention and interrogation, and it asserts that the majority took affirmative steps to protect Ms. Hebert’s Fifth Amendment rights, in contrast to the dissent’s dangerous interpretation of the law and decades of Louisiana Supreme Court jurisprudence evading the topic of statement suppression.
About the Author
Angela Beam, J.D. candidate 2023, Tulane University Law School; B.A. 2018, Barnard College, Columbia University
Citation
96 Tul. L. Rev. Online 1 (2022)