Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lopera
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided January 30, 1997No. 95-P-1488PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
On December 30, 1994, the defendant, Federico Lopera, was arrested inside an apartment at 51 Broadway in Somerville. He was charged in a complaint with keeping “a house of ill fame which is resorted to for prostitution or lewdness.” G. L. c. 272, § 24.
At the trial, three police officers testified for the Com*134monwealth. They testified that on the evening of December 30, 1994, they were driving by 51 Broadway when they saw some men walking out of an alley behind that address. Two of the officers left their vehicle and walked to the rear entrance of 51 Broadway where they heard someone “pushing…
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