California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jensen, A131610 (Cal. App. 2013):
On appeal, defendant first complains the officers suggested he would receive treatment, not punishment, if he confessed. (People v. Carrington (2009) 47 Cal.4th 145, 170 [" ' "police must avoid false promises of leniency" ' "].) They told him "a lot of people who do thing towards kids . . . [i]t's something that, maybe is wrong up here [indicating to head] . . . . [] There's help for that. [] [I]t's really not a criminal thing . . . it's an imbalance in their brain." One officer later said, "[n]obody's saying you're a criminal . . . [i]n fact we know you're not one," noting his lack of a prior criminal record.
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