Commonwealth v. Alvarado

MALDONADO, J. (dissenting).

Because I conclude that the evidence of fifty-six dollars found in the defendant's possession and two "twists" of cocaine, valued *761between forty and sixty dollars, discovered in the hands of the driver of the car the defendant was seen entering and leaving, fails to substantiate, without more, that the defendant distributed drugs, even with the additional expert testimony regarding the usual modus operandi of narcotic exchanges in South Lawrence Common Park, I respectfully dissent.

One early April afternoon in South Lawrence Common Park, police, while stationed in an…