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· 6/28/1989

Commonwealth v. Rubio

Citations

  • 540 N.E.2d 189
  • 27 Mass. App. Ct. 506
  • 1989 Mass. App. LEXIS 368

How courts have described this case

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

  • showing cocaine to defendant was confrontational and had the force of an implicit question: “Is this yours?” and, therefore, was the functional equivalent of interrogation
  • showing of cocaine found in the defendant’s apartment to him while he sat in kitchen chair surrounded by police was the equivalent of asking him whether it was his
  • “Interrogation is present ‘if an objective observer (with the same knowledge of the suspect as the police officer
  • suspect, surrounded by officers, “confined” to kitchen chair, was in custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Greaney, Dreben, Warner

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