67 Wash. 2d 39 - State v. Streeter’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “Under the officer’s version, he advised the defendant, in essence, that it was not his prerogative to file charges but that it was his duty to turn any statement made by the defendant over to the prosecuting attorney. In short, he told the defendant the truth. Against this background, the defendant gave the written confession in question. Applying the “free and voluntary” test of the Malloy case, [ 378 U.S. 1 , 12 L. Ed. 2d 653 , 84 Sup. Ct. 1489 (1964) ] supra, to the circumstances here revealed, we are satisfied that the officer’s statements to the defendant did not amount to a direct or indirect promise of whole or partial immunity. It cannot, therefore, be realistically stated that the confession was the product of such inducement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sweet