What is the current state of the law on inducement by the police?

"[T]he distinction between permissible and impermissible police conduct 'does not depend upon the bare language of inducement but rather upon the nature of the benefit to be derived by the defendant if he speaks the truth as represented by the police.' " (People v. Belmontes (1988) 45 Cal.3d 744, 773.) "When the benefit pointed out by the police to a suspect is merely that which flows naturally from a truthful and honest course of

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