Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Nicholson
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 18, 2003No. 01-P-897PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
A break-in at a restaurant in the town of Franklin led to charges in many counts against the defendant. He was found guilty in District Court of most, and he appeals. The major convictions are plainly free of error. As to the relatively minor convictions, the defendant seems to complain about the warrantless retrieval of physical items offered in evidence at trial, and he has further complaints about the conduct of the trial. We shall affirm.
On September 8, 1999, about 1:30 a.m., Officer Thomas Lynch of the Franklin police, in his cruiser at a parking lot, 380 King Street, Franklin, was…
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