COMMONWEALTH v. BRANDWEIN


435 Mass. 623 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. MICHAEL J. BRANDWEIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

January 14, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlo A. Obligato, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Julia K. Holler, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


SOSMAN, J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of armed robbery while masked, contending that his communications with a psychiatric nurse were wrongfully disclosed to the police and that his subsequent arrest and confession to the police were the fruit of that unlawful disclosure. He also contends that his confession should have been suppressed as involuntary. We granted his application for direct appellate review. For the following reasons, we affirm the conviction...

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