Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Raedy
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 31, 1987PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPerretta, J.
On appeal from convictions on complaints charging him with unlawfully carrying a firearm (G. L. c. 269, §10 [a]) and various motor vehicle violations, the defendant. directs all his arguments to the firearm conviction. He claims that the gun was illegally seized from his car after he was stopped for speeding, that the Commonwealth failed to prove that the gun was a weapon from which a shot or bullet could be discharged, and that the jury instructions concerning the firing capability of the gun were erroneous. We conclude that the gun was seized in the course of a valid inventory search and…
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- Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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