Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Hall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 10, 1975PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The defendant was convicted after a jury waived trial in the Superior Court on indictments for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute (G. L. c. 94C, §§ 31-32), possession of marihuana with intent to distribute {id.), and possession of a firearm without an identification card (G. L. c. 140, § 129C). He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for each offense, the terms to run concurrently.
On this appeal subject to G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, the assignments of error attack the judge’s failure upon voir dire to suppress the cocaine, marihuana, and firearm in question as having been…
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