enforcement officers, investigating a defendant father for alleged sex offenses committed against his daughter, intentionally misinformed the defendant that his daughter was pregnant. Id. at 113, 572 S.E.2d at 167. After determining that “[t]he use of false statements and trickery by police officers during interrogations is not illegal as a matter of law[,]” our Court turned to other factors to determine the admissibility of the defendant’s statement. Id. at 114, 572 S.E.2d at 167. Our Court found that: (1) the interrogation tactics employed “did not implant fear of physical violence or hope of better treatment;” (2) the defendant “was not tricked about the nature of the crime involved or possible punishment;” (3) the officer “did not subject defendant to threats of h 00, 609 (1994) (<HOLDING>). BRYANT, Judge. I concur in the result reached
holding that qualified immunity applies if either a the defendants action did not violate clearly established law or b it was objectively reasonable for the defendant to believe that his action did not violate such law internal quotation marks omitted holding that agents promise to inform prosecutor of defendants cooperation does not render a subsequent confession involuntary holding that implicit threats or promises did not render a defendants statement involuntary when a review of the circumstances reveals that the defendants independent will was not overcome so as to induce a confession that he was not otherwise disposed to malee internal quotation marks omitted holding that in order to prevail under  1983 a plaintiff must show 1 that defendants deprived him or her of a right secured by the constitution or laws of the united states and 2 that in doing so defendants acted under color of state law internal quotation marks omitted holding that agee applies only where defendant has alleged that his confession was induced by threats or promises