Commonwealth v. MacNeill

How courts have described this case

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

• \[D]eliberate police avoidance of a parent's participation in an exchange between the police and a juvenile ... would be highly suspect.\
• “[Deliberate police avoidance of a parent’s participation in an exchange between the police and a juvenile ... would be highly suspect.”
• “the ultimate question is whether the juvenile has understood his rights and the potential consequences of waiving them before talking to the police”
• In re-affirming this standard, court approved the trial judge's determination of a voluntary waiver in the absence of parental consultation where the trial judge expressly employed special caution in view of the defendant's youth
• In re-affirming this standard, court approved the trial judge’s determination of a voluntary waiver in the absence of parental consultation where the trial judge expressly employed special caution in view of the defendant’s youth
• adult claimed to have been drunk at critical point

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).