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Arizona Vs. Fulminante
By: Chris Dunavin and Brad Deason
Arizona Vs. Fulminante
"Protect me and I'll tell the truth on the murder"
Argument
Background
Result
Fulminante was accused for murdering his stepdaughter. Later, he was arrested for an unrelated crime after the murder and incarcerated. He ended up becoming friends with Anthony Sarivola, an inmate paid by the government to extract information from other inmates. At first he denied killing his stepdaughter but later admitted it when Sarivola offered him protection from other inmates.
In trial court, he argued that his two confessions to Sarivola could not be used as evidence, since both were coerced. Arizona argued only confessing these things for protection.
The court ended up admitting that his confessions were evidence. They ended up putting him on retrial but could not use the same evidence because the court thought it was over the top.