Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Berry
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 7, 1991PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
After the defendant, while a juvenile, was in-dieted for murder in the first degree and breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, he moved to suppress a statement he had made to the police. A judge of the Superior Court allowed the defendant’s motion. A single justice of this court granted the Commonwealth’s application for interlocutory appeal. We now reverse.
We summarize the motion judge’s findings of fact, with some supplementation from the record. Late in the evening of December 26, 1987, the defendant (then aged sixteen years, four months) returned home to his family’s…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Commonwealth v. a JuvenileMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. CainMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- Commonwealth v. MacNeillMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Commonwealth v. LibranMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. a JuvenileMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1988
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BerryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
- Commonwealth v. Alfonso A.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Commonwealth v. O'BrienMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Commonwealth v. Philip S.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Commonwealth v. McCraMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
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