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|facts=Bram was a first mate on an American ship on a voyage from Boston to South America. The captain of the ship and his wife were murdered with an axe off the coast of Nova Scotia. | |facts=Bram was a first mate on an American ship on a voyage from Boston to South America. The captain of the ship and his wife were murdered with an axe off the coast of Nova Scotia. | ||
The next day, another ship mate Brown was taken into | The next day, another ship mate Brown was taken into taken. Brown accused Bram of the murders. The interrogator asked as a question based on the implicit assumption of Bram's guilt similar to the Reid technique. Bram responded to the loaded question with admission. | ||
|procedural_history=Bram is sentenced to death. | |procedural_history=Bram is sentenced to death. | ||
|holding="A confession, in order to be admissible, must be free and voluntary." | |holding="A confession, in order to be admissible, must be free and voluntary." |