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· 4/11/1977

Commonwealth v. Fournier

Citations

  • 361 N.E.2d 1294
  • 372 Mass. 346
  • 1977 Mass. LEXIS 927

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • fact that statement is exculpatory may be taken into account in determining whether it is voluntary
  • promise not to disclose statement to a particular police officer not an inducement to confess since it “merely limited the use to be made of the statement the defendant was ready to make”
  • good faith promise by police officer not to disclose defendant's statement to particular patrolman was not inducement to confess because promise \merely limited the use to be made of the statement the defendant was ready to make\
  • good faith promise by police officer not to disclose defendant’s statement to particular patrolman was not inducement to confess because promise “merely limited the use to be made of the statement the defendant was ready to make”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Braucher, Hennessey, Bratjcher, Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams

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