Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Bostock
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 11, 2008PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The Commonwealth sought interlocutory review of the order of a judge in the Superior Court suppressing evidence obtained after police ordered the defendant, William Bostock, out of a vehicle and searched his bags. The judge concluded that the police lacked authority to issue the exit order and search Bostock’s bags. A single justice allowed the interlocutory appeal, and we transferred the case here on our own motion. We reverse the allowance of the motion to suppress.
Background. On September 22, 2003, at approximately 10 p.m., Officer Donald Allison of the Quincy police department received a…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. JimenezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
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