Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Boswell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 20, 1978PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
Three women robbed a store, and surveillance cameras took their photographs. Later an anonymous telephone informant gave the police their names and addresses. The police went to the addresses without warrants, identified the defendants as two of the women shown in the photographs, and arrested them. A judge of the Superior Court ruled that the arrests were unlawful under Commonwealth v. Forde, 367 Mass. 798 (1975), and that statements made by the defendants soon after their arrests should be suppressed under Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471 (1963), notwithstanding the “diligence and…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Stone v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. SantanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Johnson v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Commonwealth v. FordeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. StoreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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- Commonwealth v. UptonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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