People v. Parada

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an implied promise that statements would not be used against the defendant in court rendered the subsequent statements involuntary
• finding implied promise from officers' statements that they were not there to get the defendant in trouble, but only to straighten out whether she was in fact employed
• defendant’s statement made to district attorney investigators at social services office not custodial but nonetheless determined to be constitutionally involuntary as result of implied promise
• “Miranda substituted the ‘custodial interrogation’ requirement for the ‘focus of the investigation’ test which had earlier been enunciated in Escobedo_”
• “Miranda substituted ‘custodial interrogation’ requirement for the ‘focus of the investigation’ test which [was] enunciated in Escobedo_”
• manner of approach and tone and extent of questioning by police

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).