Lynumn v. Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that threats to cut off financial aid to a mother’s infant child resulted in a coerced confession
• concluding that the defendant’s confession was coerced when the police implied that she would lose custody of her children and her state financial benefits if she did not cooperate
• holding that police threats that the defendant’s young children and the financial aid upon which her family depended would be taken away if she did not cooperate rendered her statement involuntary
• holding confession involuntary when police falsely stated that suspect’s child would be taken away if she did not confess
• holding confession involuntary when police falsely stated that suspect's child would be taken away if she did not confess
• holding coercive repeated police misrepresentations that suspect would be deprived of financial aid for dependent child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).