Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Cast
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 11, 1990PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
The defendant, Saul B. Cast, was found guilty by a jury in the Superior Court of trafficking in over 200 grams of cocaine. He timely appealed from his conviction and the denial of his motion to suppress the cocaine seized by police officers in the July 31, 1986, warrantless search of a closed suitcase in the trunk of his rented automobile. We transferred the case here on our own motion and now affirm.
The following facts are drawn from the findings of the motion judge. Several days before the defendant’s arrest, Herbert Lemon, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), met with an…
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