BERRY, J.
The principal issue on appeal in this case involves the obligation of a trial judge to conduct an evidentiary hearing and to enter a preliminary ruling concerning the admissibility of a defendant's confession, precedent to placement of that confession before the jury, where there is squarely framed a substantial question concerning the voluntariness of that confession. See Commonwealth v. Tavares,
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