Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Loughlin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 13, 1982PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
We consider again the propriety of a police search of a motor vehicle. The defendants were convicted of possession of a controlled substance (marihuana) with intent to distribute. In their appeals, they challenge the denial *61of their motions to suppress evidence seized in the search of the rear area of the vehicle on an interstate highway in Sturbridge. The trial judge made no detailed findings of fact but ruled from the bench, at the close of the hearing on the motions to suppress, that the search was consensual.
On the defendants’ postconviction appeal, the Appeals Court reversed the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Rawlings v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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- United States v. Robert Ross McCaleb and Brenda PageCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1977
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3Cited by64 opinions
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