Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Borges
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 28, 1985PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*789Liacos, J.
A Bristol County grand jury indicted the defendant, Leon Borges, for possession of heroin with intent to distribute. G. L. c. 94C, § 32 (1984 ed.). A judge of the Superior Court denied the defendant’s motion to suppress eight bags of heroin, and a single justice of this court granted the defendant’s request for leave to take an interlocutory appeal. Mass. R. Crim. P. 15 (b) (2), 378 Mass. 882 (1979).
The facts, as found by the motion judge, are these. At approximately 5:45 p.m. on September 3, 1983, on a main thoroughfare in New Bedford, a pedestrian hailed a police cruiser. The…
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