Commonwealth v. Collins

On this appeal from a conviction for kidnapping, the defendant attacks only the trial judge’s finding (made after a voir dire at which the defendant and a police officer testified) that the defendant had waived his Miranda rights so that his statements, made in reply to police questions, were admissible in evidence. From our examination of the testimony at the voir dire — from which the following summary is drawn — we conclude that the judge’s finding of waiver was correct. The defendant was apprehended .after a chase; he was given the Miranda warnings — then and again at the police station.…