Robert Allen Williams, Jr. v. Pamela Withrow

How courts have described this case

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• holding that confession was coerced because police told suspect that if he told the truth about his role in the murder, he would not be charged, but if he didn’t talk, he would be charged with murder
• discussing the coercive nature of “deliberate inducement of inculpatory statements through illusory promises of leniency” (emphasis added)
• finding a confession involuntary even after Miranda warnings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).