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COMMONWEALTH v. BACON

381 Mass. 642 (1980)

411 N.E.2d 772

COMMONWEALTH vs. PAUL B. BACON (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 16, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Callahan for Arthur Davis.

Arthur H. Goldsmith for Paul B. Bacon.

Michael J. Traft, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

WILKINS, J.

We are concerned here with whether the defendants' State and Federal constitutional rights were violated by a warrantless search of a motor vehicle. Each is charged with the unlawful possession of one or more firearms that were found when two Boston policemen, operating a marked cruiser, stopped them on Washington Street in Boston about 4:10 A.M. on a Saturday morning in March, 1977. The Commonwealth argues the...

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