ADRIAN DAMAR BOOKER, ET AL., PETITIONERS,

v.

FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY, ET AL., RESPONDENTS

Citator

Cited By (12 total)

• Blake v. State, 972 So. 2d 839 (Fla. 2007)
  …prosecute or promises of leniency may render a confession involuntary. -See, e.g., Samuel v. State, 898 So. 2d 233, 237 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005) (finding a promise not to prosecute other fictional crimes rendered confession involuntary); Walker v. State, 771 So. 2d 573, 575 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000) (“Where there is an express quid pro quo, i.e., a promise of protection from prosecution for cooperation, the promise of leniency alone is sufficient to render a confession or inculpatory statement involuntary”); see also Br…
• Ramirez v. State, 15 So. 3d 852 (Fla. 1st DCA 2009)
  …de the prisoner as to his true position and exert an improper influence over his mind. A confession or inculpatory statement is not freely and voluntarily given if it has been elicited by direct or implied promises, however slight. Walker v. State, 771 So. 2d 573, 575 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000) (internal citations omitted). Further, to exclude a statement as involuntary based on improper police tactics, a court must conclude that there is a causal [*856] connection between the improper conduct and the statement. Bl…
• State v. Walter, 970 So. 2d 848 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007)
  …ate, 696 So. 2d 326, 329 (Fla.1997). Where there is an express quid pro quo, such as a promise of protection from prosecution for cooperation, the promise of leniency may render a confession or inculpatory statement involuntary. See Walker v. State, 771 So. 2d 573, 575 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000). In Brewer v. State, 386 So. 2d 232 (Fla.1980), the court concluded that the two officers’ actions were coercive because they “raised the spectre of the electric chair” and suggested the officers had the power to see that th…