Commonwealth v. Carp

A single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court allowed the Commonwealth’s application for interlocutory appeal from an order of a District Court judge allowing the defendant’s motion to suppress statements he made to a Department of Social Services (department) investigator. The Commonwealth claims that the judge’s findings of fact were not supported by *230the evidence and that the judge erred in concluding that the defendant’s statements were involuntary. We affirm.

We summarize facts found by the motion judge, with amplification from uncontested facts in the record, including the judge’s oral…