Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Clemmons

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided May 13, 1976Published

1Opinion of the Court

370 Mass. 288 (1976)

346 N.E.2d 864

COMMONWEALTH

vs.

CHARLES CLEMMONS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 2, 1975.

May 13, 1976.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN & WILKINS, JJ.

Geoffrey C. Packard (John G. Landes with him) for the defendant.

D. Lloyd Macdonald, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

In this appeal the defendant challenges his conviction in the Superior Court of possession of heroin on the ground that he had previously been put in jeopardy for the same offense in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston. His…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. United States v. JornSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  3. Wade v. HunterSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  4. Illinois v. SomervilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  5. Breed v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975

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