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Commonwealth v. Beland’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

32 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Moran v. Burbine · McNeil v. Wisconsin · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · United States v. Testan

Most-quoted passages

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  1. ““We considered whether art. 12 provides greater protection for criminal defendants than the Federal Constitution, in the wake of Moran v. Burbine, 475 U.S. 412, 422 (1986) (holding Fifth Amendment does not require that police inform defendant of attorney’s efforts to make contact because ‘[e]vents occurring outside the presence of the suspect and entirely unknown to him surely . . . have no bearing on the capacity to comprehend and knowingly relinquish a constitutional right’). Commonwealth v. Mavredakis, [ 430 Mass. 848, 856 (2000)], quoting Moran v. Burbine, supra. We concluded that it does, noting that ‘[t]he history of art. 12 and our prior interpretations of its self-incrimination provisions . . . lead to the conclusion that art. 12 provides greater protection than the Federal Constitution does.’ Commonwealth v. Mavredakis, supra at 859 . See Commonwealth v. Cryer, 426 Mass. 562, 568 (1998). Focusing on a difference between ‘the abstract right to speak with an attorney mentioned in the Miranda warnings, and a concrete opportunity to meet “with an identifiable attorney actually able to provide at least initial assistance and advice,” ’ we reasoned that ‘the duty to inform a suspect of an attorney’s efforts to render assistance is necessary to actualize the abstract rights listed in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).’ Commonwealth v. Mavredakis, supra at 859-860 , quoting State v. Haynes, 288 Or. 59, 72 (1979), cert. denied, 446 U.S. 945 (1980). We established a brig”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “free to reject the testimony of the defendant's expert”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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