Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Griswold
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided January 5, 1977PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
1. The only item seized at the defendant’s home pursuant to the challenged search warrant which was admitted in evidence at the trial was a long black leather and cloth coat which was identified by a witness as being the same type of coat as one he had seen the defendant wearing approximately eight hours prior to the commission of the rape and burglary for which the defendant was subsequently indicted. The affidavit (executed three days after the offences) which formed part of the application for a warrant to search carefully identified premises for a coat of that general description stated…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Commonwealth v. VynoriusMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. StewartMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
- Commonwealth v. ValliereMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Collins v. BrierlyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
- Commonwealth v. AndersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Deborah Fidler v. Eastman Kodak CompanyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1983
- State v. CarterSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1979
- Barrett v. PereiraMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1997
- Commonwealth v. ServidoriMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1979
- D'Ambly v. CatalanoMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1993
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