United States v. Howard S. Ruggles, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant's \extensive criminal record\ and \familiar[ity] with police questioning\ weighed in favor of finding his statements voluntary
• considering fact that probation officer did not tell defendant that he was obligated to speak with law enforcement officers as weighing against conclusion that defendant was in custody
• emphasizing the “extensive criminal record” that had made the defendant “familiar with police questioning”
• considering defendant’s familiarity with police questioning and “maturity, education [and] intelligence”
• “[A] confession is not involuntary 2 merely because the suspect was promised leniency if he cooperated with law enforcement 3 officials.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[S]tatements to the effect that it would be to a 4 suspect’s benefit to cooperate are not improperly coercive,” but are instead “merely common sense 5 factual observations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).