Monroe v. Chase

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a threat [to arrest] does not render a confession involuntary ifthe police have probable cause to arrest. . . and thus could lawfully carry out the threat’
• holding that a confession obtained after a threat to arrest two family members was involuntary and, therefore, inadmissible because the officers did not have probable cause to arrest either family member
• where an officer’s threat to arrest a suspect’s elderly aunt without any probable cause was deemed improper
• defendant’s statements were involuntary where police threatened to arrest defend­ ant’s mother and elderly aunt but lacked probable cause to do so
• “a threat to arrest a suspect’s family member [...] does not render a confession involuntary if the police had probable cause to arrest the family member and thus could lawfully carry out the threat.”
• officers improperly threatened to arrest defendant’s mother on a theory of constructive possession based on the discovery of a gun inside a pocket of a man’s coat located in a closet that the defendant told the officers contained his possessions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).