Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Correia
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided April 21, 2006No. 05-P-235PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCohen, J.
Charged with drug offenses,1 the defendant filed a motion to suppress evidence found by the police in the course *175of the motor vehicle stop that led to his arrest. A judge of the District Court denied the motion, and the defendant petitioned for leave to file an interlocutory appeal. A single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court allowed the petition and reported the matter to this court. See Mass.R.Crim.P. 15(a)(2), as appearing in 422 Mass. 1501 (1996); G. L. c. 278, § 28E. The question presented is whether, after detecting the odor of marijuana emanating from the automobile in which the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Commonwealth v. GonsalvesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
- Commonwealth v. SkeaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. KitchingsMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1996
- Commonwealth v. Lawrence L.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
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