What is the current state of the law on whether a confession must be voluntary?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Dillion v. Lea, No. CIV S-09-2280 EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2012):
The Constitution demands that confessions be made voluntarily. See Lego v. Twomey, 404 U.S. 477, 483-85 (1972). Involuntary confessions may not be used to convict criminal defendants because they are inherently untrustworthy and because society shares "the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that in the end life
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