United States v. Raynard Walton

How courts have described this case

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• concluding a confession was involuntary where an agent “assured” the defendant his statements would not be used against him
• “the appropriate inquiry is whether the defendant reasonably perceived the alleged promise as he asserts.”
• perception that statements defendant made would not be used against him was reasonable in part because agents with whom he spoke had the same understanding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).