COMMONWEALTH v. CEFALO


381 Mass. 319 (1980)

409 N.E.2d 719

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT J. CEFALO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

August 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Flynn for the defendant.

Dyanne Klein Polatin, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


QUIRICO, J.

On October 18, 1976, the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment at Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole. He appeals from this conviction, and from the denial of the second of his two motions for a new trial.1

The defendant raises three issues which were preserved by objection and exception. He argues: (1) that the search of his hotel room and seizure of items...

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