Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Perez
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 5, 2010No. 08-P-1824PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCypher, J.
We are asked in this case to apply the ruling in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 129 S. Ct. 2527 (2009), to determine whether the erroneous admission of certificates of drug analysis, in the circumstances, was reversible error. We conclude that it was.
The defendant, Mario M. Perez, was convicted by a Superior Court jury in July, 2004, of trafficking in cocaine between twenty-eight and one hundred grams, G. L. c. 94C, § 32E(¿)(2).1 He appeals, claiming that (1) his motion for a required finding of not guilty was improperly denied; (2) his pretrial motion to suppress evidence was improperly…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Melendez-Diaz v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. BrzezinskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. LaVelleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
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3Cited by4 opinions
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