PEOPLE v. CLIFTON TERRELL
Where murder-robbery suspect who made confession during police interview requested at conclusion of interview to call his mother privately. The man's motivation for call was his desire to receive emotional support and comfort rather than any kind of prompting by police interviewers, and police never attempted to influence conversation by contacting man's mother or telling her or man that they would be listening to or recording conversation, trial court did not err in admitting police's secret recording of man's telephonic confessions to family members on basis that calls were entirely were voluntarily, even though court had ruled his prior confession to police had been coerced.
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