United States v. Hufstetler, No. 14-1393 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant confessed to robbing a federal credit union and was convicted for this crime. Prior to trial, Defendant twice moved to suppress his confession, arguing that it was coerced in violation of his Fifth Amendment rights. Specifically, Defendant argued that where his girlfriend was also in police custody for the robbery at the time of his interrogation and a significant portion of his interview dealt with the impact that his cooperation would have on her prospects for release, the officers’ references to his girlfriend during the interrogation overpowered his will. The district court denied the motions. The First Circuit affirmed, holding that, under the circumstances of this case, the officers did not act permissibly and that Defendant voluntarily chose to confess.
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