United States v. Donna Ballard

How courts have described this case

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

• promising to make known a defendant’s cooperation to the trial court or prosecutor does not of itself establish the will of the defendant was overcome
• “[d]etermin-ing whether a confession is voluntary requires an assessment of human motivation and behavior. One factor, by itself, is seldom determinative”
• “A truthful and noncoercive statement of the possible penalties which an accused faces may be given to the accused without overbearing one’s free will.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).