Legal Opinion
United States v. Montgomery
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 13, 2009No. 08-1690PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
A federal jury convicted Calvin Montgomery of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Montgomery now appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress his statement implicating himself for that crime. He argues that his statement was involuntary because it was given in response to promises of leniency, invoking a supposed per se rule prohibiting the police from making promises to a suspect in order to extract a confession. Alternatively, Montgomery argues that his statement was involuntary under a totality of the circumstances approach. He also argues that…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Colorado v. ConnellySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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- Michigan v. MosleySupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Frazier v. CuppSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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