Legal Opinion
United States v. Lawrence C. Fraction
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 30, 1986No. 85-5412PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FULLAM, District Judge.
The government appeals from an Order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, 613 F.Supp. 295, suppressing a confession as involuntary. The district court ruled that the confession had been improperly induced by promises.
We accept as correct the findings of historical fact made by the district judge. They may be summarized as follows:
On September 2, 1984, an FBI agent named White traveled to the Rahway State Prison in New Jersey in order to question the defendant, Lawrence Fraction, about a 1983 robbery of a bank in…
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