Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Cryer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 30, 1998PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, J.
After a jury trial, the defendant, Derek Cryer, was convicted of murder in the first degree by reason of deliberate premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty, and felony-murder. The defendant was also convicted of the underlying felony of armed robbery. Central to this appeal is the defendant’s contention that his confession, which was given to Massachusetts police while he was being held in New Hampshire on an unrelated matter, should have been excluded from evidence as having been made involuntarily, because his attorney in the unrelated matter had instructed the New Hampshire police that…
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