Commonwealth v. Hamilton

The defendant appeals from his convictions of murder in the first degree and armed robbery. The defendant argues that (1) his right to an impartial jury was violated by the prosecution’s improper exercise of peremptory challenges, as well as the trial judge’s allegedly unconstitutional remedy for that improper exercise; (2) the judge erred in concluding that the defendant waived his right to remain silent and his right to counsel before answering certain questions of police officers; (3) the judge erred in refusing to excise portions of a tápe recording of his interrogation which the…