Jimmie Leon Pollard v. George Galaza

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the detective’s questioning of the defendant violated Miranda TEKOH V. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 27 but “did not amount to coercion or compulsion”
• concluding that a suspect’s confession 23 was voluntary where the suspect showed no signs of physical discomfort
• “[M]isrepresentations made by law enforcement in obtaining a statement, while reprehensible, does not necessarily constitute coercive conduct.”
• “[M]isrepresentations made by law enforcement in obtaining a statement, while reprehensible, does not necessarily constitute coercive conduct.”
• voluntary statements taken in violation of Miranda “may be used for impeachment should the Defendant testify inconsistently”
• misrepresentations do not necessarily constitute coercion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).