Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Knowles
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 7, 2008PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
At 6:40 p.m., on a September evening, a Malden *92police officer, on patrol, received a dispatch reporting a man in a white shirt and jeans “swinging a baseball bat” near the intersection of Ferry and Holyoke Streets. Fewer than ten seconds later, the officer turned the comer from Ferry Street onto Holy-oke Street and observed a man fitting that description. The man was standing with his back to the officer’s cmiser, leaning into the open trunk of an automobile. The officer observed that as the man leaned into the trunk, he placed a baseball bat up against a telephone pole adjacent to the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Mincey v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Cady v. DombrowskiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Lewis L. Wayne v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1963
- Commonwealth v. SilvaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. FraserMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
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3Cited by18 opinions
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