Commonwealth v. Kacavich

Pursuant to a valid search warrant, police searched the defendant’s apartment and found marijuana, a scale, recorded notations suggesting drug transactions, and assorted drug paraphernalia. During the course of the search, the defendant entered the apartment. After showing him the warrant, the police arrested the defendant, read the Miranda warnings, and searched him, finding $840 in cash. Sometime later (perhaps an hour, roughly), during the course of a fifteen-minute booking procedure at the police station, without further reading of Miranda warnings, the defendant was asked routine…