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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Pressley.

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1 State v. Pressley Anchor
nc · 1966
green “a promise of leniency renders a confession involuntary only if the confession is so connected with the inducement as to be the consequence of it.” 3
2 State v. . Drake
nc · 1893
green “if promises or threats have been used, it must be made to appear that their influence has been entirely done away with before subsequent confessions can be deemed voluntary, and therefore admissible.” 3

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