Legal Opinion
United States v. Charles Baldwin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 19, 1995No. 94-1025PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The defendant was convicted of a drug offense and sentenced to 23 years in prison. His only ground for appeal that merits discussion is that inculpatory statements (that he was a habitual user of cocaine and that he routinely carried a gun for protection) that he made to a federal agent who questioned him shortly after he had been arrested should have been suppressed as involuntary. The agent had promised that any cooperation by the defendant would be brought to the prosecutor’s attention. This promise, the defendant argues, rendered his statements involuntary. The…
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