Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Sheppard

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 26, 1982Published

1Opinion of the Court

387 Mass. 488 (1982)

441 N.E.2d 725

COMMONWEALTH

vs.

OSBORNE SHEPPARD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 8, 1981.

October 26, 1982.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

John F. Herlihy, Jr., for the defendant.

Newman A. Flanagan, District Attorney (Clyde R.W. Garrigan, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

WILKINS, J.

In this appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree, we are faced with the serious and challenging question whether the exclusionary rule, adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States to…

2Cases cited76 opinions

  1. Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Franks v. DelawareSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  5. Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964

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