Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 20, 1991No. 90-P-1483PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, CJ.
The only issue presented by this appeal is whether information provided by a confidential informant, buttressed by independent police corroboration, provided sufficient information to establish probable cause for a search. The defendant’s motion to suppress the cocaine found in the search was denied. After a jury trial in the Superior Court, he was convicted of trafficking in cocaine.
Officer Robert Fratalia of the Boston police anticrime unit was the sole witness at the hearing on the motion to suppress. The facts found by the motion judge, supplemented by additional undisputed…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Draper v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Commonwealth v. UptonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. AvaloMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1994
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