re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

so courts are allowed to use confessions obtained under false pretenses?

Absolutely, as long as the defense isn’t able to prove that it’s obtained under false pretenses. Unless a lawyer asks them, the cops don’t have to tell the court they offered a false bargain to the defendant - and a prosecutor, whose job rating depends on getting convictions, certainly isn’t going to ask.