Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. One 1976 Cadillac DeVille Automobile
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 16, 1980PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
We granted direct appellate review of a judgment of the Superior Court, Middlesex County, that forfeited the defendant Cadillac automobile to the Commonwealth under G. L. c. 94C, § 47, as a “conveyance” involved in drug trafficking as therein defined. On this appeal the claimant-owner argues that the car was not a conveyance within the statute and that the whole forfeiture proceeding was invalidated because it was started too late. We affirm.
The facts as found by the judge and somewhat amplified from the record were as follows. On the night of May 24, 1979, undercover Officer David Nieves of…
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