Commonwealth v. Monroe
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of several crimes based on three incidents that occurred in October 2010 when Defendant accosted three different teenage victims as they walked to school. On appeal, Defendant argued, among other things, that the motion judge erred in denying his motion to suppress statements that he made to police during a videotaped interview. The Supreme Judicial Court reversed, holding that the statements at issue were erroneously admitted at trial because the police engaged in impermissibly coercive tactics that rendered Defendant’s statements involuntary under the circumstances of the interrogation, and the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Remanded for a new trial.
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