Cite as: 516 U. S. 99 (1995)
Opinion of the Court
Julie R. O'Sullivan, by appointment of the Court, 513 U. S. 1137, argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner. Cynthia M. Hora, Assistant Attorney General of Alaska,
argued the cause for respondents. With her on the brief was Bruce M. Botelho, Attorney General, pro se.*
Justice Ginsburg delivered the opinion of the Court. During a two-hour, tape-recorded session at Alaska state trooper headquarters, petitioner Carl Thompson confessed that he killed his former wife. Thompson's confession was placed in evidence at the ensuing Alaska state-court trial,
*Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Florida et al. by Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General of Florida, and Carolyn J. Mosley, Assistant Attorney General, Grant Woods, Attorney General of Arizona, Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General of California, Gale A. Norton, Attorney General of Colorado, John M. Bailey, Chief State's Attorney of Connecticut, M. Jane Brady, Attorney General of Delaware, Margery S. Bronster, Attorney General of Hawaii, Alan G. Lance, Attorney General of Idaho, Pamela Carter, Attorney General of Indiana, Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa, Carla J. Stovall, Attorney General of Kansas, Chris Gorman, Attorney General of Kentucky, Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General of Louisiana, Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General of Maine, J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General of Michigan, Hubert H. Humphrey III, Attorney General of Minnesota, Mike Moore, Attorney General of Mississippi, Jerimiah W. "Jay" Nixon, Attorney General of Missouri, Joseph P. Mazurek, Attorney General of Montana, Don Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, Frankie Sue Del Papa, Attorney General of Nevada, Jeffrey R. Howard, Attorney General of New Hampshire, Deborah T. Poritz, Attorney General of New Jersey, Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of New York, Michael F. Easley, Attorney General of North Carolina, Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General of Ohio, Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Charles Molony Condon, Attorney General of South Carolina, Mark Barnette, Attorney General of South Dakota, Charles W. Burson, Attorney General of Tennessee, Dan Morales, Attorney General of Texas, Jan Graham, Attorney General of Utah, Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Attorney General of Vermont, James S. Gilmore III, Attorney General of Virginia, and Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General of Washington; and for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation by Kent S. Scheidegger.
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