Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Joseph Piard

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided April 18, 2025No. 23-P-846Published

1Opinion of the Court

APPEALS COURT

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSEPH PIARD

Docket:

23-P-846

Dates:

July 1, 2024 – April 18, 2025

Present:

Shin, Grant, & Smyth, JJ.

County:

Suffolk

Keywords:

Rape. Constitutional Law, Admissions and confessions, Voluntariness of statement. Evidence, Admissions and confessions, Voluntariness of statement, Videotape, Expert opinion. Rape-Shield Statute. Witness, Expert. Practice, Criminal, Motion to suppress, Waiver, Argument by prosecutor. Waiver.

Indictment found and returned in the Superior Court Department on October 24, 2019.

A pretrial motion to suppress evidence was heard by Peter B. Krupp, J., and…

2Cases cited75 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Arizona v. FulminanteSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. Michigan v. MosleySupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  4. Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  5. Hormel v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1941

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