Commonwealth v. Hawkins

The appeal is from the defendant’s convictions on both counts of an indictment for perjury committed by the defendant before a grand jury in Middlesex County which was investigating the October 9, 1985, disappearance of nine year old Sarah Pryor in Wayland. The case was tried to a judge sitting without jury and was submitted on a statement of agreed facts and agreed evidence. The arguments in this court have all been directed to whether it was error for a different judge to deny the defendant’s pretrial motions (a) to suppress statements made by the defendant without the benefit of counsel or…