United States v. Patricia R. Sablotny

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police detec- tive's statement to defendant that \she would probably go to jail\ if she did not cooperate did not render her confession involuntary
• reasoning that an officer's statement to a suspect \that she would probably go to jail\ was not coercive because it did not \magnify ... matters to the point where a rational decision b[ecame] impossible.\ (citation omitted)
• declining to apply a “special standard” to an individual on the basis of being elderly
• declining to apply a “special standard” to an individual on the basis of being elderly
• “The district court’s factual findings … are not internally inconsistent, and are thus not in clear error.”
• “If mental impairment of whatever kind should have reasonably been apparent to the interrogators, special care should have been exercised, and a lesser quantum of coercion would render the confession involuntary.”

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