Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Jordan
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 10, 2000No. 96-P-1103PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDreben, J.
A woman in Florida, Rochelle Kaminski, telephoned Massachusetts State police stating that her best Mend, Carol Leith, had been kidnapped and was going to be killed. Leith was being held in a car by the defendant and one Edgar Smith on route 91 in Massachusetts, going north. Alerted by the call, police officers found Leith’s empty car in a rest area. Nearby, they saw someone waving in a parked car. When that vehicle began to move, the officers followed and forced it to stop. Huddled in the back seat was a woman (Leith), crying, •shaking, and mouthing the words “help me, help me.” The…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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- Wheat v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Morris v. SlappySupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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3Cited by10 opinions
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