Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Foster
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 1, 2000No. 98-P-488PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDreben, J.
During a patfrisk of the defendant shortly after 5:30 a.m. on April 2, 1995, Boston police officer Richard Walker felt a hard object in the defendant’s coat pocket. The object was a gun loaded with eight rounds of ammunition. Charged with and convicted of illegal possession of a firearm (G. L. c. 269, § 10[a]), and illegal possession of ammunition (G. L. c. 269, § 10[h]), the defendant claims the patfrisk was in violation of his rights under art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights and the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and, accordingly, that his…
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