The court also emphasized that in the absence of such coercion, the issue of "free will" is not a topic for constitutional consideration. Connelly was a man who approached a uniformed police officer in Denver and stated, without any prompting, that he had murdered someone and "wanted to talk about it." He then waived his Miranda rights. The trial court and Colorado Supreme Court agreed that the defendant's schizophrenia, to which a psychiatrist had testified, had destroyed his volition and voided his waiver of his rights. The decision is ambiguous in its implications for future cases involving mentally ill offenders, and only future judicial decisions will indicate whether the case will be interpreted narrowly or whether the long-predicted end of Miranda rights has come. 130 references