Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Love

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided October 8, 2002No. 01-P-242PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCohen, J.

Before us is the Commonwealth’s interlocutory appeal1 from a District Court judge’s allowance of the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence obtained during a stop of his motor vehicle by a State police officer. The stop was made as a result of a report by a citizen, delivered in person to the desk officer at State police barracks, that he had just observed a car driving er*230ratically and chasing a truck at a speed in excess of eighty miles per hour. Although the citizen did not ask to remain anonymous, the desk officer did not take down his name. The officer did make a note of the license…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Commonwealth v. StouteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
  4. United States v. Alfonso Sierra-HernandezCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
  5. Commonwealth v. LyonsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. Alfonso A.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
  2. Commonwealth v. CostaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
  3. Commonwealth v. CavittMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
  4. Steven O. Dale v. Anthony CicconeWest Virginia Supreme Court · 2014
  5. Commonwealth v. DeJesusMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2008

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