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Appeals court weighs whether police questioning of 17-year-old required Miranda and an interested adult
Summary
The court heard argument over whether two stationhouse interviews of a 17-year-old after a shooting were custodial and whether the second interview was tainted by the first; parties disputed waiver and the presence of an interested adult.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court heard argument in an appeal of a suppression ruling in Commonwealth v. Juvenile (docket 23P1458), focused on whether police violated Miranda and related protections for a 17-year-old who was questioned after a shooting.
Michelle Minkin, representing the juvenile, told the panel that both recorded interviews should be suppressed because the first was a custodial interrogation conducted without an interested adult or Miranda warnings and the second interview'despite a Miranda form and the mother's presence'was not sufficiently attenuated from the first.
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