California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Forbs, 39 Cal.Rptr. 171 (Cal. App. 1964):
Defendant next contends that in the recorded conversation between her and the investigating police officers, several statements were made which indicated that certain promises and threats were made as inducements for the statement ultimately given by her, and therefore that her statement was involuntary and inadmissible. (People v. Ditson, supra, (1962) 57 Cal.2d 415, 20 Cal.Rptr. 165, 369 P.2d 714.) Assuming without deciding that the statement given by defendant was a confession rather than an admission, 1 such was given voluntarily. We have carefully examined the transcript of the recorded conversation; defendant's allegation that her statements were improperly induced is at variance with the facts of the interrogation. The statements made by the police officers, taken in their proper context, amount to no more than an exhortation that defendant tell the truth.
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