Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Miranda
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided April 7, 1986PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.
The defendant Miranda and two other prisoners in the Barnstable County house of correction were tried in May 1976, before a judge sitting without a jury on several indictments for rape, sodomy, and assault and battery, the victims being other prisoners. The involved prisoners all testified, alleged perpetrators as well as one victim (the other victim had died, apparently for unrelated reasons, prior to trial). At the close of the evidence, the trial judge stated:
“Well, gentlemen, I don’t think it is necessary to have arguments in this. I am actually giving no credibility whatsoever to the…
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