Legal Opinion
COMMONWEALTH v. BRITTANY WESTGATE.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 19, 2022PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WESTGATE, COMMONWEALTH vs., 101 Mass. App. Ct. 548
COMMONWEALTH vs. BRITTANY WESTGATE.
101 Mass. App. Ct. 548
April 13, 2022 - August 19, 2022
Court Below: District Court, New Bedford Division
Present: Meade, Englander, & Grant, JJ.
No. 21-P-954.
Motor Vehicle, Operating under the influence. Practice, Criminal, Motion to suppress, Disclosure of identity of informer. Constitutional Law, Reasonable suspicion. Search and Seizure, Motor vehicle, Reasonable suspicion, Threshold police inquiry. Threshold Police Inquiry.
A District Court judge erred in allowing the criminal defendant's pretrial motion to…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Irwin v. Town of WareMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. AndersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. Alfonso A.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
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