Thomas J. Ballou, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from the district court’s denial of a petition for habeas corpus presents a question of the propriety of police-conducted search of petitioner’s person.

On September 14, 1965, at 12:45 p.m., Detective McLean received a telephone call at Boston Police Headquarters from an unidentified informant. The informant asked to speak with Detective-Sergeant Lynch, who had formerly been assigned to the Charlestown area. Upon learning that Detective Lynch was unavailable, but that McLean was Lynch’s partner, the informant told Detective McLean that “Buddy McLean, Ballou,…