Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Bethune

Massachusetts Superior Court

Decided June 11, 2013No. WORC201201332Published

1Opinion of the Court

Krupp, Peter B., J.

This matter is before the court on two motions to suppress filed by defendant Ricky Bethune (“Bethune”): a Motion to Suppress Evidence (docket #26), which seeks to suppress the fruits of the stop and arrest of Bethune on April 17, 2012, including statements he allegedly made shortly after he was stopped; and a Motion to Suppress Identification (docket #27), which overlaps in its effort to suppress the fruits of Bethune’s April 17, 2012 arrest and also seeks to exclude the one-on-one show-up identification of Bethune by a police officer.

The court conducted an evidentiary…

2Cases cited36 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Neil v. BiggersSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Rhode Island v. InnisSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. United States v. WatsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  5. Virginia v. MooreSupreme Court of the United States · 2008

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