Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Downs
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 15, 1991No. 91-P-113PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
A pretrial motion to suppress inculpatory statements of the defendant was improperly allowed by a judge of the District Court. Upon the Commonwealth’s interlocutory appeal, authorized by a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court under Mass.R.Crim.P. • 15(b), as amended, 397 Mass. 1225 (1986), we vacate the suppression of those statements.
Two Barnstable police officers responded at 8:50 P.M. on July 9, 1989, to a report of an accident in the parking lot of the Candlelight Motor Lodge. At the place of the accident, they encountered the defendant, who said he had backed into a parked car,…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. CronkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
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- Commonwealth v. GriffinMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1985
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- Commonwealth v. BalboniMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
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