United States v. Tymond Preston

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2014-05-12

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OPINION BERZON, Circuit Judge: Today we consider the voluntariness of a confession given by Tymond Preston, an intellectually disabled eighteen-year-old. To elicit this confession, the police, among other tactics, repeatedly presented Preston with the choice of confessing to a heinous crime or to a less heinous crime; rejected his denials of guilt; instructed him on the responses they would accept; and fe…

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