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COMMONWEALTH v. HILTON

443 Mass. 597 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH v. KATHLEEN HILTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

March 9, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia H. Slingerland, Assistant District Attorney (David Dunbar Livingston, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Michael F. Natola for the defendant.

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

SOSMAN, J.

The defendant has been indicted on charges of murder in the second degree (five counts), burning a dwelling (G. L. c. 266, § 1), and causing injury to a fire fighter (G. L. c. 265, § 13D ½). The defendant moved to suppress her statement to the police (in which she ultimately made a full confession) and her later statement to a court officer following her arraignment (in which she confirmed that she had lit the fire in question). After an...

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