Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 7/3/1959

Commonwealth v. Burke

Citations

159 N.E.2d 856
339 Mass. 521
77 A.L.R. 2d 451
1959 Mass. LEXIS 835

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holding that defendant had the right to refuse to answer questions put to him by police officer who had called him
holding irrelevant evidence of one-sixteenth inch wide blood stain of undetermined age, and not shown to be human
evidence of defendant husband’s adulterous relationship which terminated seven months before wife’s death not probative of motive to murder
“I don’t want to talk to you or any other police official regarding this matter”
new trial required where police officer allowed to testify about defendant’s prearrest statements that he did not want to talk to the police and that he had engaged lawyer

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Judges: Wilkins, Ronan, Spalding, Counihan, Whittemore

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