Can a police officer use deception to coerce a suspect into giving a false confession?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Winter v. Scribner, No. CIV S-05-543 KJM EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2012):
The officers' use of some deception (for example, by telling petitioner they had physical evidence that they did not have and that they had already obtained a statement from his co-defendant) was not impermissible and did not amount to coercion because it was not the type of police deception that is reasonably likely to produce a false confession. See, e.g., Frazier v. Cupp, 394 U.S. 731, 739 (1969) (confession admissible even though officer falsely told the
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