COMMONWEALTH v. DiSANTO


8 Mass. App. Ct. 694 (1979)

397 N.E.2d 672

COMMONWEALTH vs. THOMAS E. DiSANTO (and thirteen companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Mills (Walter J. Hurley with him) for James F. Brady, III.

Jeffrey E. Rossman (David D. Patterson with him) for Thomas E. DiSanto.

Thomas J. Mundy, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HALE, C.J., GRANT, & KASS, JJ.


GRANT, J.

In the early afternoon of April 29, 1977, two Boston police detectives in an unmarked car happened upon the scene of an armed robbery which was being committed on the sidewalk next to a bank building in Mattapan Square. The detective who was driving the car ran it up onto the sidewalk and against the side of the building; the detectives were met with a hail of gunfire; both were wounded, as was a civilian bystander; four young men fled in a waiting car which...

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