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COMMONWEALTH v. BOSWELL

374 Mass. 263 (1978)

372 N.E.2d 237

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROSEMARIE BOSWELL (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Lloyd Macdonald, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Michael Anton Laurano for the defendant Boswell.

Leonard B. Mandell for the defendant Toney.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

BRAUCHER, J.

Three women robbed a store, and surveillance cameras took their photographs. Later an anonymous telephone informant gave the police their names and addresses. The police went to the addresses without warrants, identified the defendants as two of the women shown in the photographs, and arrested them. A judge of the Superior Court ruled that the arrests were unlawful under Commonwealth v. Forde, 367 Mass. 798

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