Ashdown v. Utah, 357 U.S. 426 (1958), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the officers involved in the case did not take advantage of petitioner or overtake her will when eliciting the confession.

[1] This case was one of the last decisions by the Court about confession evidence that preceded important new rules in Escobedo v.

After the husband's funeral, the police brought the petitioner in for four-and-a-half hours of questioning by deputies and the prosecutor under the pretense that it was an investigation into whether the poisoning was an accident.

Towards the end of the interview, the petitioner confessed to putting strychnine in a drink intended for herself before giving it to her husband instead.

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