Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Fourteen Thousand Two Hundred Dollars
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 27, 1995PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The Commonwealth brought this action in 1988 under G. L. c. 94C, § 47 (d) (1988 ed.), seeking forfeiture of $14,200 alleged to have been “used, or . . . intended to be used in the procurement, manufacturing, compounding, processing, delivery or distribution of’ a controlled substance or to have been “the proceeds of a sale of a controlled substance.” In 1988, G. L. c. 94C, § 47 (d), required the Commonwealth to prove “all material facts [supporting forfeiture] by a preponderance of the evidence.” The statute was revised by St. 1989, c. 653, § 79, to provide that the “[Commonwealth shall have…
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