Intellectual disability alone does not render a confession involuntary; the court must assess whether the person was capable of exercising free choice on the specific facts. A failure by police to conduct pre-interview checks that would have revealed an Adult Guardianship Order does not necessarily warrant exclusion of admissions where the admissions are voluntary, reliable, and the officer had no reasonable basis to suspect impaired capacity from the suspect's presentation.
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