Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Warren
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 1, 1988PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
The defendant stands indicted for assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon arising out of the shooting of Luis Vega. This is the Commonwealth’s interlocutory appeal from an allowance of the defendant’s motion to suppress Juan Baez’s pretrial photographic identification of the defendant as one of a group of men who attacked Vega. We transferred the appeal from the Appeals Court to this court on our own motion. We reverse the suppression order.
The judge, who heard the motion to suppress the photographic identification by Baez, at the same time heard a second…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Manson v. BrathwaiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Commonwealth v. FitzgeraldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Commonwealth v. BotelhoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Commonwealth v. DayeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
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3Cited by21 opinions
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