Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. D'ONOFRIO

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided February 11, 1986PublishedCited by 53 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.

The defendants are charged in numerous complaints with exposing and keeping alcoholic beverages for sale without authority, retailing soft drinks without a license, operating a place of assembly which exceeds the occupancy limit, and managing unlicensed Sunday dances. 2 This is an interlocutory appeal by the Commonwealth from an order of a judge of the Boston Municipal Court Department suppressing evidence obtained as a result of the execution of two search warrants. Mass. R. Crim. P. 15 (a) (2), 378 Mass. 882 (1979). We transferred the appeal to this court on our own motion and now vacate…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Rakas v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Rawlings v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Oliver v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Lewis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967

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3Cited by53 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. MontanezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
  2. State v. PoseyOhio Supreme Court · 1988
  3. Commonwealth v. BerryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
  4. Commonwealth v. ChappeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
  5. Commonwealth v. ColonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007

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