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U.S. v. MONTGOMERY

No. 08-1690.

555 F.3d 623 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Calvin C. MONTGOMERY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 13, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angela Scott, Attorney (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Fairview Heights, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Daniel T. Cook, Attorney (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Springfield, IL, Richard H. Parsons, Attorney, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Calvin C. Montgomery, Greenville, IL, pro se.

Before CUDAHY, FLAUM, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

A federal jury convicted Calvin Montgomery of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Montgomery now appeals the district court's denial of his motion to suppress his statement implicating himself for that crime. He argues that his statement was involuntary because it was given in response to promises of leniency, invoking a supposed per se rule prohibiting the police from making promises to a suspect in order to extract a confession. Alternatively...

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