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Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Reports on Attorney Barabino’s Landmark Case

Attorney Barabino served as counsel in Commonwealth v. Valerio DiGiambattista, a case that made its way to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The case involved a legal dispute over voluntary confession. In the court’s final decision it ruled that for now on any unrecorded custodial interrogation of a defendant admitted into evidence entitles the defendant, on request, to a new jury instruction. Attorney Barabino’s historic work on this landmark case has changed the rules on criminal process and procedure in the Commonwealth. The development was so substantial that Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly wrote an article on the feat, which you can read here.