State v. Monaco

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of suppression, holding that the defendant's custodial statements were voluntary under the totality of the circumstances because his will was not overborne by police threats or inducements. It also held that Oregon's felony-murder statute, as interpreted by the court, does not violate due process because it requires proof of the culpable mental state for the predicate felony and does not conclusively presume a separate mental state regarding causation of death. A concurrence agreed with the result but disputed the majority's interpretation of the felony-murder statute and would have upheld the convictions alternatively under harmless-error review.