Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Horrigan
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 19, 1996No. 95-P-1309PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
This appeal poses a claim of double jeopardy. We reach it after a sequential statement of the case.
On November 19, 1994, about 11:45 p.m., James Horrigan was arrested on route 62 by North Reading Officer Robert Marchionda, and later was charged by complaint with operating under the influence of liquor and with civil violations of speeding and crossing a marked lane.
The matter came to trial in Cambridge District Court, jury-of-six session, on the afternoon of March 23, 1995. *338Called by the Commonwealth, Marchionda testified that while on uniform patrol in a cruiser that night, headed east on…
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