Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. DiSanto
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 15, 1979PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
In the early afternoon of April 29, 1977, two Boston police detectives in an unmarked car happened upon the scene of an armed robbery which was being committed on the sidewalk next to a bank building in Mattapan Square. The detective who was driving the car ran it up onto the sidewalk and against the side of the building; the detectives were met with a hail of gunfire; both were wounded, as was a civilian bystander; four young men fled in a waiting car which sped off in the direction of Cummins Highway.
Thomas E. DiSanto, James F. Brady, III, Richard W. Gadsby and Kenneth Wightman were each…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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