Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Quezada
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided November 2, 2006No. 05-P-1628PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCypher, J.
The defendant, Yasmani Quezada, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, G. L. c. 269, § 10(a), after a police officer stopped him on the street. The Commonwealth appeals from the allowance of a motion to suppress, claiming that the motion judge erred in concluding that the community caretaking exception did not apply and that there was no reasonable suspicion for the stop. We affirm.
*694Background. The judge credited the testimony of the one witness at the hearing on the motion to suppress, Officer Timothy Horan. Horan testified that on August 25, 2004, at around 1:10 p.m., he and…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Commonwealth v. SilvaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. YesilcimanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
- Commonwealth v. StouteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
- Commonwealth v. JimenezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. QuezadaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2008
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- Commonwealth v. GarciaMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2015
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