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urn: urn:us-la:rs:15:451
citation: "R.S. 15:451"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 15 › Chapter 2 › Part VI"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2010, number: 433, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
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# Condition precedent to use of confession; free and voluntary rule

Before what purports to be a confession can be introduced in evidence, it must be affirmatively shown that it was free and voluntary, and not made under the influence of fear, duress, intimidation, menaces, threats, inducements or promises.