Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Tisserand
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 2, 1977PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKeville, J.
The defendant appeals under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from a conviction of armed robbery after a jury trial. The defendant assigns as error the denial of his motion to suppress physical evidence and oral statements made by him. The evidence presented at the hearing on the motion to suppress may be summarized as follows.
At approximately 6:00 p.m. on December 27, 1974, a Cambridge bookstore was robbed by a man armed with a silver-colored gun, wearing a white glove on his right hand and an olive-colored parka. The robber entered the bookstore, ordered the manager to empty the contents of the…
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