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How courts have described this case

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• holding that detectives’ suggestion that, unless the defendant confessed to shaking his child, her medical care would suffer, rendered the defendant’s confes- sion involuntary
• finding that a confession was involuntary when, combined with another factor, the police “suggested—if not outright stated”—that the defendant’s child’s “medical care would be dictated by what defendant told them”
• noting that the officer’s “obvious intent in drawing a distinction between the two alternatives was to induce defendant to confess to less-serious conduct than it would be assumed that he had committed in the absence of a confession”
• noting “ [t]hat the officers never explicitly made a promise of leniency or immunity is not dispositive”
• applying same standard under statutory and constitutional analysis
• where uncertainty of medical diagnosis was stressed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).