Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 5/1/1997

Commonwealth v. Torres

Citations

424 Mass. 792
678 N.E.2d 847
1997 Mass. LEXIS 94

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holding police officer’s comments were not interrogation because they were not “anything other than a response to the defendant’s concerns”
“the admissibility of statements obtained after an invocation of that right depends on whether the person’s right to cut off questioning was ‘scrupulously honored’ ”
no functional equivalent of interrogation where police merely aware of possibility suspect may make incriminating statement
police officer’s intent in asking the questions relevant to determining whether questions reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating statement
“[t]he ‘ “functional equivalence” test does not turn on the subjective intent of the particular police officer’ ”
“the mere fact that a police officer may be aware that there is a ‘possibility’ that a suspect may make an incriminating statement is insufficient to establish the functional equivalent of interrogation”

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