Massachusetts Appeals Court· 9/28/1999

Commonwealth v. Gordon

Citations

47 Mass. App. Ct. 825
716 N.E.2d 1036
1999 Mass. App. LEXIS 1086

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indicating that police may ask defendant, who is placed in custody during Terry stop, preliminary questions to determine identity without implicating Miranda
placing a suspect into a cruiser does not in and of itself transform a stop into an arrest
handcuffing and placing defendant in police cruiser, without probable cause to arrest, did not take investigation “beyond the proper contours of a threshold inquiry”
distinguishing cases in which preliminary questioning did not amount to custodial interrogation
court held it was improper to question the defendant without Miranda warnings when police handcuffed and placed her in a cruiser
Miranda warnings should have preceded police asking woman, who had been stopped from fleeing and was handcuffed in back of police cruiser, what she doing in area at early hour of morning

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Judges: Armstrong

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