California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Thomas, A142916 (Cal. App. 2016):
The law governing the voluntariness of statements to police was summarized in People v. Linton (2013) 56 Cal.4th 1146 at pages 1176-1177: " ' "A statement is involuntary if it is not the product of ' "a rational intellect and free will." ' [Citation.] The test for determining whether a confession is voluntary is whether the defendant's
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