Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/8/2002

Commonwealth v. Ortiz

Citations

435 Mass. 569
760 N.E.2d 282
2002 Mass. LEXIS 4

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“circumstances justified the warrantless entry and search under the destruction of evidence exigency” where unruly crowd threatened to rush crime scene and undermine its integrity
“objectively reasonable grounds to believe that [missing person] was in trouble, whether injured or dead”
officer’s statement that it would benefit defendant to tell truth because confession could reduce charge did not constitute police coercion so as to render defendant’s statement involuntary
search of fruit store to find missing person who police reasonably believed was inside and injured or dead
unruly crowd preparing to storm store posed threat to integrity of crime scene
absence of written waiver of Miranda rights does not vitiate oral waiver

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Judges: Greaney

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