What is the test for police conduct that is deemed to have induced an involuntary statement?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Kovacevich, H037257 (Cal. App. 2013):
The distinction that is to be drawn between permissible police conduct on the one hand and conduct deemed to have induced an involuntary statement on the other "does not depend upon the bare language of inducement but rather upon the nature of the benefit to be derived by a defendant if he speaks the truth, as represented by the police." (People v. Hill (1967) 66 Cal.2d 536, 549, italics added.) Thus, "[w]hen the benefit
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