Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Lavelle
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 23, 1992No. 91-P-431PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJacobs, J.
The defendant appeals from his convictions by a Superior Court jury on two indictments for distribution of a counterfeit controlled substance. G. L. c. 94C, § 32G. His argument focuses largely on claimed errors in the admission and exclusion of evidence. We affirm.
Two Framingham police officers, Detectives Shastany and Davis, and a former undercover informant, John Robinson, *37were the only witnesses for the prosecution. Robinson testified in some detail of seeking the defendant out in mid-October 1986, as a possible source of drugs and later that month making two separate “cocaine” purchases…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. BohannonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
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- Commonwealth v. SherryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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3Cited by4 opinions
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