COMMONWEALTH v. ROSARIO


422 Mass. 48 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH vs. HIPOLITO ROSARIO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

February 12, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Ellen Pietras, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Regina Zupan, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

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


WILKINS, J.

We consider whether the defendant's confessions should be suppressed because, following his arrest, the police delayed his arraignment until after questioning that led to his confessions. The defendant has been charged in six indictments for breaking and entering in the nighttime and in six indictments for larceny.

A Superior Court judge suppressed the defendant's confessions to various 1993 burglaries in Springfield principally because, after...

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