Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Sires
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 29, 1992PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
On September 5, 1973, the defendant fatally shot his mother while she was lying in bed. This court affirmed his conviction of murder in the first degree. Commonwealth v. Sires, 370 Mass. 541 (1976). Among other things, we rejected the defendant’s argument that, because the trial judge did not suppress statements that the defendant had made to police officers, he was denied his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). Commonwealth v. Sires, supra at 543-545. In 1989, this court ordered a new trial because we concluded that, based on intervening opinions of the Supreme Court of the…
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