Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Fredericq

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided April 24, 2019No. SJC 12572PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGants, C.J.

**71After the defendant was indicted by a grand jury for trafficking cocaine in violation of G. L. c. 94C, § 32E (b ), he moved to suppress the cocaine and cash seized during a warrantless search of his residence on the third floor of a multiunit house, commencing the nearly decade-long procedural journey that brought this case to our doorstep. The Superior Court judge who last ruled on this motion held that the cocaine and cash must be suppressed, concluding that they were the fruits of the unlawful police tracking of a cellular telephone through which the police obtained cell site location…

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  3. Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  4. United States v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  5. Carpenter v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2018

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3Cited by20 opinions

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