Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. White

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided July 26, 1995No. 94-P-1407Published

1Opinion of the Court

The evidence that the defendant was a friend of the sellers, that she directed the buyer (an undercover police officer) to the sellers, accompanied him to their apartment, and remained while the sale of cocaine was being made, coupled with the evidence that she expected to be paid for her role in the transaction (although she received nothing and had no agreement to receive anything from the buyer) justify an inference that the defendant was “associated with the illegal sale and had a ‘significant participation in it,’ ” Commonwealth v. Mendoza, 8 Mass. App. Ct. 919 (1979), quoting from…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. MorrowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
  2. Commonwealth v. HarvardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1969
  3. Commonwealth v. NoonsMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1974
  4. Commonwealth v. MurilloMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1992
  5. Commonwealth v. MendozaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1979

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