United States v. Villalpando

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[a]n empty prosecutorial promise could prevent a suspect from making a rational choice by distorting the alternatives among which the person under interrogation is being asked to choose” (citation omitted)
• rejecting claim that false promise of leniency was made by officer who stated she would “sit down” with law enforcement to “work this out” and also said “we don’t have to charge you”
• “a false promise [of leniency] has the unique potential to make a decision to speak irrational and the resulting confession unreliable.”
• “[P]romises to seek favorable consideration from the prosecutor do not undermine the voluntariness of a confession.”
• “[A] false promise of leniency may render a statement involuntary … .”
• “Trickery, deceit, even impersonation do not ren‐ der a confession inadmissible”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).