Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Stevens
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 2, 1972PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, J.
Stevens is charged, in four complaints, with receiving stolen goods. A motion to suppress the evidence described in the complaints was denied by a Superior Court judge. A justice of this court allowed the defendant’s application for an interlocutory appeal from the Superior Court judge’s ruling. G. L. c. 278, § 28E.
We set forth the facts. On February 6, 1970, at approximately 8:30 A.M. Special Agent Lucksted of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called by telephone a Captain May of the Brookline police department and informed Captain May that he “had received information from a reliable,…
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