Commonwealth v. Hine

The defendant was indicted on June 8, 1983, for the murder of Angel Figueroa. After a hearing, a judge in the Superior Court allowed the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence of oral statements the defendant had made to State police officers on April 2 and 5, 1982. The Commonwealth subsequently filed an application for interlocutory appeal of this decision, and the defendant filed a cross application for interlocutory appeal of the judge’s decision not to dismiss the indictment for prosecutorial misconduct. Mass. R. Grim. P. 15 (b) (2), 378 Mass. 882 (1979). A single justice of this court…