What is the effect of misstating the law about felony murder in a confession?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Belton, C075998 (Cal. App. 2015):
murder, amounted to an implied promise of lenity, rendering a confession involuntary (id. at pp. 483-485). The high court did not hold that misstating the law about felony murder was coercive in all cases. Instead, the statements by the officers must be assessed to determine whether they would be likely to cause a false confession. (People v. Farnam, supra, 28 Cal.4th at p. 182.) The transcript herein contains no such statements.
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