California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Vasquez, F069281 (Cal. App. 2016):
9. There was no DNA evidence in this case. An officer's ruse or deception about physical evidence does not render a statement involuntary. (People v. Maury (2003) 30 Cal.4th 342, 411.) "Police trickery that occurs in the process of a criminal interrogation does not, by itself, render a confession involuntary and violate the state or federal due process clause.... [] So long as a police officer's misrepresentations or omissions are not of a kind likely to produce a false confession, confessions prompted by deception are admissible in evidence. [Citations.]" (People v. Chutan (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 1276, 1280, italics in original.)
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