Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Skea
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 26, 1984PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.
The defendant appeals from a conviction of receiving stolen goods. The stolen goods, diamonds, were found when a police officer searched the defendant’s person; and the validity of that search is the sole issue in this appeal.
The search took place in Holyoke on a November evening in 1980. Two Holyoke police officers on routine patrol pulled into a small shopping center and parked next to a red Camaro automobile in front of a liquor store. From prior official contacts the police recognized one Thurston sitting in the front passenger seat. No one else was in the automobile. The police knew…
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