United States v. Maurice A. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• finding a promise of leniency was not coercive because the police refrained from prosecuting a third party as promised
• considering whether Johnson’s waiver of Miranda rights was unknowing or involuntary because the waiver was induced by the verbal promise of leniency
• ‘‘[p]olice promises of leniency and threats of prosecu- tion can be objectively coercive,’’ particularly if they cannot be ‘‘lawfully executed’’
• ‘‘[p]olice promises of leniency and threats of prosecu- tion can be objectively coercive,’’ particularly if they cannot be ‘‘lawfully executed’’
• informant’s observations concerning drug dealing given within three days of issuance of search warrant not stale
• threat to arrest suspect’s sister was not coercive where police had probable cause to arrest sister

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).