Commonwealth v. Grinkley

Responding to a telephone report about black youths with a gun in a public playground, investigating Framingham police officers stopped and pat-frisked the defendant, Lawrence J. Grinkley. The frisk produced no gun but did find two prescription bottles in Grinkley’s pants pocket that contained twenty-eight bags of crack cocaine. A jury convicted Grinkley of possession of a class B substance with intent to distribute (G. L. c. 94C, § 32A[o]) and related offenses. He argues on appeal that a judge erroneously denied his motion to *63suppress the seized cocaine because the Commonwealth failed to…