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COMMONWEALTH v. DANIELS

366 Mass. 601 (1975)

321 N.E.2d 822

COMMONWEALTH vs. RUSSELL W. DANIELS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

January 7, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard J. Alperin (J. Arthur Hickerson with him) for the defendant.

John T. McDonough, Assistant District Attorney (William W. Teahan, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, & WILKINS, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

The Defendant (Daniels), a mentally retarded young man with a second-grade reading ability and an I.Q. of fifty-three, was found guilty of murder in the second degree solely on the basis of his confession to the Springfield police. In this appeal, which is subject to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, Daniels argues that, for various reasons, evidence of his alleged confession and admissions should have been suppressed, and that, if they had been suppressed...

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