Commonwealth v. Barnes

It would perhaps suffice in this case merely to repeat my long-held views (1) that this Court’s rules regarding waivers of Miranda rights by juveniles are “unwise, unnecessary, and unwarranted,” 1 and (2) that the application of these rules to *562this arrest and interrogation, occurring as they did before this doctrine had evolved2 is particularly without justification, since the exclusion of appellant’s statement “is not a response to police activity in disregard of a rule of law which they knew or should have known . . .”3 This case, however, warrants some additional discussion, because of the…