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COMMONWEALTH v. COLLINS

440 Mass. 475 (2003)

COMMONWEALTH vs. DONALD COLLINS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

December 5, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven E. Gagne, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Nona E. Walker, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, Sosman, & Cordy, JJ.

CORDY, J.

In Commonwealth v. Mavredakis, 430 Mass. 848 (2000) (Mavredakis), we affirmed that the protections against self-incrimination afforded criminal defendants by art. 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights are greater than those embodied in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and announced a rule, founded on those greater protections, that the police have a duty to inform a suspect...

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