COMMONWEALTH v. DAMIANO


422 Mass. 10 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH vs. THOMAS DAMIANO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

February 7, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elspeth Cypher, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

John Higgins & Andrew S.A. Levine for the defendant.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The Commonwealth appeals, pursuant to leave by a single justice of this court, from that portion of an order that allowed the suppression of certain statements that the defendant made to the police and of evidence derived from those statements. The defendant has been indicted for murder and other crimes allegedly arising from events that occurred in Fall River on October 1, 1993.

A Superior Court judge ruled that (1) the police failed to give the...

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