The states follow one of two procedures to determine whether a confession was freely and voluntarily made. Explain each.
What will be an ideal response?
Under the orthodox procedure, the trial judge decides if, given the circumstances, the confession is voluntary. If it is, the confession is introduced into evidence and the judge instructs the jury to consider the confession along with all the other evidence presented. Under the Massachusetts procedure, if the judge decides that the confession is voluntary, the judge instructs the jury on the definition of voluntariness and instructs the jury to consider the confession as evidence only if it finds that the confession was voluntary.
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