Massachusetts Appeals Court May 4, 2007, No. 05-P-1252 (Commonwealth v. Miller)

Berry, J.

The principal issue on appeal in this case involves the obligation of a trial judge to conduct an evidentiary hearing and to enter a preliminary ruling concerning the admissibility of a defendant’s confession, precedent to placement of that confession before the jury, where there is squarely framed a substantial question concerning the voluntariness of that confession.