Roosevelt Tippitt v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections

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• concluding that confession of defendant with eleventh grade education was voluntary even though it was given in exchange for promise not to pursue capital sentence
• concluding that confession of defendant with eleventh grade education was voluntary even though it was given in exchange for promise not to pursue capital sentence
• concluding that confession of defendant with eleventh grade education was -26- voluntary even though it was given in exchange for promise not to pursue capital sentence
• holding that a custodial statement given in exchange for a promise that the defendant would not be charged with capital felony murder \was the product of his rational and voluntary decision and that the officers' promise did not coerce or overbear his free will\
• concluding that defendant's confession was voluntary despite officers' promise
• promise of nonprosecution does not in itself make statement involuntary

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