California Court of Appeal June 15, 1983, Crim. 5797 (People v. Adams)

WOOLPERT, J.

I respectfully dissent. In reacting with less offense than the majority to the sheriff’s religious technique in seeking a truthful confession, I am mindful of the description Justice Kaus has given to this appellate duty: “[W]e must of necessity perform a task for which we are not particularly well equipped—the determination how another person, whom we know only through the pages of