Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. O'CONNOR
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided January 8, 1986PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The defendant was convicted of unlawful possession of cocaine (G. L. c. 94C, § 34) after a jury-waived trial in a District Court, at which the Commonwealth offered no evidence other than that which had been presented at the hearing on the defendant’s motions to suppress items and statements.
Our task has needlessly been made more difficult because the judge did not make any findings. See Commonwealth v. Mattias, 8 Mass. App. Ct. 786,788 (1979). This failure, which is not in and of itself reversible error, requires us to engage in the unenviable task of analyzing “the record to see if the…
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- Adams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Commonwealth v. SilvaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
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