Commonwealth v. Howard

A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of forcible rape of a child and indecent assault and battery. His convictions were affirmed by the Appeals Court in an unpublished memorandum and order entered pursuant to its rule 1:28. Commonwealth v. Howard, 63 Mass. App. Ct. 1120 (2005). We granted the defendant’s application for further appellate review on the limited issue whether a judge in the Superior Court erred in denying the defendant’s motion to suppress an incriminating statement made by the defendant, who had an attorney, to an investigator with the Department of Social *564Servic…