Where a trial court has a erroneously allowed the admission of an involuntary confession against the defendant, and where the defendant was actually convicted of the crime charged, the remedy for the appellate court is to
A) automatically reverse the conviction and send the case back to the trial court for a new trial.
B) reduce the amount of time to which the defendant was sentenced, taking into consideration the severity of the trial court error.
C) determine whether the erroneous introduction of the confession had any effect on the outcome of the trial held in the lower court and reverse the conviction where the error was not harmless.
D) automatically reverse the conviction and instruct the lower trial court to dismiss the case against the defendant.
E) determine what level of offense the defendant might have been convicted of having committed if the involuntary confession had not been admitted and enter that level of conviction.
C
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