Commonwealth v. Hilton

This is the Commonwealth’s second interlocutory appeal from the allowance of a motion to suppress statements made to a court officer. Following the first appeal we declined to consider the defendant’s claim of involuntariness because it was raised for the first time on appeal. See Commonwealth v. Hilton, *174443 Mass. 597, 618-619 n.12 (2005). After remand, the defendant raised the issue of the voluntariness of her statement to the court officer in a supplemental motion to suppress. The same judge who decided the original motion to suppress also decided the supplemental motion to suppress. He…