Commonwealth v. Ware

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Roberts,

The Commonwealth in this appeal calls upon this Court to hold the federal constitutional standards of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602 (1966), inapplicable to a 1963 confession sought to be introduced in a post-Miranda trial. This contention must be rejected. It ignores the controlling and unambiguous pronouncements of the United States Supreme Court concerning the extent of Miranda’s retroactivity. These pronouncements have been scrupulously followed not only by an unbroken line of decisions of this Court1 but also by virtually every other court…