Commonwealth v. Panetti

On Friday night, December 20, 1985, David Berkel, the chief of police of Lenox, entered a crawl space under the defendant’s first-floor apartment on Housatonic Street with the permission of the owner of the property. The crawl space is used for access to pipes and wiring. Tenants and the public have no access to it. Over a period of more than two hours, Berkel heard the defendant engage in the sale of controlled substances to several people. Armed with *231this information, Berkel then obtained a search warrant that led ultimately to the defendant’s conviction of illegal possession of a class B…