COMMONWEALTH v. DOYLE


377 Mass. 132 (1979)

385 N.E.2d 499

COMMONWEALTH vs. JAMES B. DOYLE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

January 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert S. Previte, Jr., for the defendant.

George M. O'Connor, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

The defendant James B. Doyle was convicted of murder in the first degree and armed robbery in connection with the death by stabbing of Harold Cotton in a hotel in Lawrence in which these men and certain principal witnesses were lodgers. Appealing pursuant to G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, the defendant contends that the trial judge committed error in refusing on voir dire to grant his motion to suppress statements he made to the police after Miranda...

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