United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed over claims of error that: 1) defendant's statement was involuntary because it was given in response to promises of leniency, invoking a supposed per se rule prohibiting the police from making promises to a suspect in order to extract a confession; 2) defendant's statement was involuntary under a totality of the circumstances approach; and 3) the police failed to honor defendant's right to silence and cut off questioning.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2009
• Published 02/13/2009

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• United States Seventh Circuit

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