REYNOLDS

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Menesses, 962 F.2d 420 (5th Cir. 1992)
  …en reviewing a ruling from a suppression hearing, “[t]his Court must give credence to the credibility choices and findings of fact of the district court unless clearly erroneous.” United States v. Raymer, 876 F. 2d 383, 386 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 870, 110 S.Ct. 198, 107 L.Ed.2d 152 (1989) (citing United States v. Watson, 591 F. 2d 1058, 1061 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 441 U.S. 965, 99 S.Ct. 2414, 60 L.Ed.2d 1070 (1979)). A finding is clearly erroneous only when the reviewing court is left with…
• United States v. Doucette, 979 F.2d 1042 (5th Cir. 1992)
• United States v. Rojas-Martinez, 968 F.2d 415 (5th Cir. 1992)
  …54 (1973). Under Connelly, a confession is voluntary in the absence of official overreaching, in the form either of direct coercion or subtle forms of psychological persuasion. United States v. Raymer, 876 F. 2d 383, 386-87 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 870, 110 S.Ct. 198, 107 L.Ed.2d 152 (1989). We treat the district court’s findings of fact as valid unless clearly erroneous but make an independent review of the legal conclusion of voluntariness. Raymer, id. at 386. Defendants complain that they were…