The People v. Hartgraves

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a police officer telling the defendant “ ‘[i]t would go easier for him in court if he made a statement’ ” was not a promise of leniency and did not render the defendant’s confession involuntary
• telling defendant \It would go easier for him in court if he made a statement” was a \mere suggestion of the advisability of making a statement” and did not render defendant’s confession involuntary
• telling defendant \It would go easier for him in court if he made a statement\ was a \mere suggestion of the advisability of making a statement\ and did not render defendant's confession involuntary
• telling defendant \ '[i]t would go easier for him in court if he made a statement' \ was a \mere suggestion of the advisability of making a statement\ and did not render defendant's confession involuntary
• “A reading of the entire record indicates by overwhelming weight of the evidence that defendant voluntarily confessed after being confronted with accusatory statements of two other persons involved in the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).