45 Mich. App. 466 - People v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “a promise of leniency for a relative is not, of itself, coercive enough to vitiate a guilty plea as a matter of law. Instead, the question in each case is whether the inducement for the guilty plea was one which necessarily overcame the defendant's ability to make a voluntary decision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Lamorand