Commonwealth v. Hussey (No. 1)

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to exercise § 33E power despite evidence that defendant was twenty-one years old, had a troubled family life, had been living in difficult circumstances, and conduct was due in large part to peer pressure
• defendant’s post-waiver statement that he had “nothing else he could say” did not invoke right to silence where he had demonstrated willingness to answer police questions
• defendant’s statement that “he had nothing else he could say” did not amount to invocation of right to remain silent
• defendant’s statement that he “had nothing else to say” and his thinking out loud as to whether he should talk or not did not amount to invocation of right to remain silent
• defendant’s statement that “he had nothing else he could say” and his thinking out loud as to whether he should talk did not amount to invocation of right to remain silent
• defendant’s statement that “he had nothing else he could say,” coupled with his “thinking out loud” about whether he should talk or “shut. . . up,” did not amount to invocation of his right to cut off questioning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).