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Court throws out statements by suspect in fatal fire

High court criticizes troopers in arson case

By Travis Andersen and Martin Finucane

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 22, 2012

The state’s highest court has thrown out incriminating statements made by a man charged with setting a string of fires in Northampton in December 2009 in which a father and son died, on the grounds that two state troopers improperly interrogated the suspect. The veteran troopers who interviewed Anthony P. Baye used “multiple problematic tactics’’ during an interrogation that lasted nearly 10 hours, the Supreme Judicial Court said in a ruling issued Monday.

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