Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bongarzone
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 13, 1983PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
Peter Bongarzone, Joseph Carfagna, Gordon P. Trapp, and Paul F. Smith were convicted by a jury of violating the marihuana trafficking statute, G. L. c. 94C, § 32E (a)(2), as appearing in St. 1980, c. 436, § 4. They received sentences of from five to seven years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole (M.C.I., Walpole), with the exception of the defendant Trapp, who received a sentence of from six to eight years. The defendants Bongarzone and Carfagna were also convicted of violating G. L. c. 268A, § 2 (a) (bribery), and received concurrent sentences of from two to three…
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