Commonwealth v. Rosario

We consider whether the defendant’s confessions should be suppressed because, following his arrest, the police delayed his arraignment until after questioning that led to his confessions. The defendant has been charged in six indictments for breaking and entering in the nighttime and in six indictments for larceny.

A Superior Court judge suppressed the defendant’s confessions to various 1993 burglaries in Springfield principally because, after the defendant’s arrest, the police deliberately delayed the defendant’s arraignment for the purpose of obtaining incriminating statements from him. A…