Commonwealth v. Richardson

On March 8, 1990, Detective Elton Grice of the Boston police drug control unit obtained a search warrant for apartment number two, a second-floor apartment, at 115 Homestead Street in the Roxbury section of Boston, on the strength of a controlled purchase made through a confidential informant the day before. Before executing the warrant, Detective Grice returned to the apartment on March 12, 1990. Working undercover, Grice himself purchased a small bag of cocaine from the defendant, Clinton Richardson. Having thus confirmed that drug sales from the apartment were ongoing, Detective Grice…