Commonwealth v. Watson

A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant of trafficking in cocaine in an amount over twenty-eight grams (G. L. c. 94C, § 32E[6] [2]). Forty-three small plastic bags containing 31.20 grams of fifty-five percent pure cocaine, along with other physical evidence, were seized during a search executed pursuant to a warrant. On appeal, the defendant contends that his motion to suppress the evidence should have been allowed because (1) the affidavit supporting the search warrant failed to establish probable cause to be- Heve that cocaine would be found in the apartment searched, and (2) the…