Michael Eugene Thompson v. Michael W. Haley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• threat to arrest suspect’s girlfriend did not render suspect’s confes- sion involuntary where police had probable cause to do so
• threat to bring charges against defendant’s wife not coercive where police had probable cause to bring charges
• “Whether a threat to prosecute a third party was coercive depends upon whether the state had probable cause to believe that the third party had committed a crime at the time that the threat was made ….”
• “Whether a threat to prosecute a third party was coercive depends upon whether the state had probable cause to believe that the third party had committed a crime at the time that the threat was made ….”
• “whether a threat to prosecute a third party was coercive depends upon whether the state had probable cause to believe that the third party had committed a crime at the time the threat was made”—suspect’s girlfriend’s own statement established her participation in the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).