Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Lantigua

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided May 11, 1995No. 93-P-1386PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.

Two police officers on patrol in an unmarked cruiser drove by the defendant’s car and the car of a person known to them parked at the roadside. The person whom the officers knew, and of whom they were suspicious for reasons not put in evidence, was walking toward the defendant’s car. The officers reversed direction to return to the scene and saw the defendant’s car pulling away “at a fairly good rate of speed.” They followed the defendant’s car in the cruiser and observed it drive through a stop sign at an intersection, slowing but not stopping, and turn into the parking *527lot of an apartment…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Michigan v. LongSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Pennsylvania v. MimmsSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Commonwealth v. SilvaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
  5. Gary Leland Cotton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967

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3Cited by31 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. GonsalvesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
  2. Commonwealth v. FeyenordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
  3. Commonwealth v. LopesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
  4. Commonwealth v. DaleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
  5. Commonwealth v. BartlettMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1996

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