| | FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Fifth Amendment: Annotations pg. 9 of 16 |
 | | A number of cases have demonstrated, if demonstrations were needed, that the efficiency of the rack and thumbscrew can be matched, given the proper subject, by more sophisticated modes of 'persuasion'. |
 | | A prolonged interrogation of the accused who is ignorant of his rights and who has been cut off from the moral support of friends and relatives is not infrequently an effective technique of terror.'' 276 |
 | | While the Court would not hold that prolonged questioning by itself made a resultant confession involuntary, 277 it did increasingly find coercion present even in intermittent questioning over a period of days of incommunicado detention. |
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