Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Forde
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 22, 1975PublishedCited by 187 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*799Reardon, J.
The defendant was convicted in the Superior Court of possession of marihuana and LSD, and possession with intent to sell the same. He appealed under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, and the Appeals Court reversed the judgments below. Commonwealth v. Forde, 2 Mass. App. Ct. 425 (1974). The Commonwealth applied for and was granted further appellate review pursuant to G. L. c. 211 A, § 11. The opinion of the Appeals Court contains a full statement of the facts and we repeat here only those critical to our decision.
The warrantless entry into the defendant’s apartment, which had been under…
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