Derrick Davis v. the State of Texas

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• concluding that investigator’s statement “that you can do five years because you’re not coming clean,” did not result in involuntary confession
• holding that “voluntariness of confession ‘is not ... to be equated with the absolute absence of intimidation’ ”
• holding that investigator’s statement “you’re not coming clean, ... you can do five years because you're not coming clean,” did not constitute a threat or promise
• recognizing that a law “enforcement officer may 21 properly tell the truth to the accused,” and that “[t]ruthful statements about [the defendant’s] predicament are not the type of ‘coercion’ that threatens to render a statement involuntary.”
• noting that “[ajdmonishing a suspect to tell the truth during an investigatory interview” by advising him of potential consequences of failing to tell the truth “does not constitute coercive police conduct rendering a statement involuntary.”
• stating that \[t]ruthful statements\ about defendant's \predicament are not the type of 'coercion' that threatens to render a statement involuntary\ (alteration in original) (internal quotation marks omitted)

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