Criminal – Cocaine Possession – Prosecution Threat – Defendant’s Sister

By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 21, 2008

A police threat to prosecute defendant’s sister for possession of the cocaine found in the green SUV in which police found drugs unless defendant confessed did not amount to a coercion of his statement that would require suppression, the Court of Appeals holds. At a hearing on the motion to suppress, defendant testified that because the ...

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