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Commonwealth v. Mottola

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided December 9, 1980PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtDreben, J.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the Commonwealth (see G. L. c. 278, § 28E, and Mass.R.Crim.P. 15(a)(2), 378 Mass. 882 [1979]) from a ruling allowing the defendant’s motion to suppress a gun seized from the defendant by a police officer of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). The defendant was charged with carrying a gun without a license (G. L. c. 269, § 10[a]) and with “accosting or annoying” a person of the opposite sex by offensive and disorderly acts and language (G. L. c. 272, § 53). A District Court judge first denied the motion to suppress and upheld the seizure of…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Commonwealth v. SilvaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
  3. Commonwealth v. AlmeidaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
  4. Alholm v. Town of WarehamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
  5. Commonwealth v. AndersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LevesqueMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
  2. Commonwealth v. CatanzaroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
  3. Commonwealth v. LeBlancMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
  4. Commonwealth v. BakoianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
  5. Commonwealth v. HarrisMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1981

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