How have the courts interpreted comments made by a police officer to a suspect in a murder case in which he was interviewed by a detective?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Gilley v. Madden, No. 2:18-cv-1162 JAM KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2020):
U.S. at 103. That conclusion is so because the comments can reasonably be said to amount to advice to tell the truth in a general sense, rather than as implied promises of leniency should petitioner change his story to comport with the detectives' narrative. Hutto v. Ross, 429 U.S. at 30. At bottom, fairminded jurists could disagree on the correctness of the decision. Richter, 562 U.S. at 101.
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