Hutto v. Ross

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• holding that a plea-bargain that was not contingent upon defendant's confession rendered defendant's subsequent inculpatory statement to the police officials voluntary
• holding that testimony from officers conceding they told the defendant his wife could be arrested and his children could be taken from him did amount to improper influence
• holding a confession is voluntary so long as the promise did not overbear defendant’s will
• finding Eighth Circuit \erred when it held that any statement made as a result of a plea bargain is inadmissible\
• noting that an involuntary confession is one that was “extracted by any sort of threats or violence, [or] obtained by any direct or implied promises, however slight, [or] by the exertion of any improper influence.” (alterations in original
• noting that an involuntary confession is one that was “extracted by any sort of threats or violence, [or] obtained by any direct or implied promises, however slight, [or] by the exertion of any .improper influence.” (alterations in original

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