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COMMONWEALTH v. FORD

394 Mass. 421 (1985)

476 N.E.2d 560

COMMONWEALTH vs. DENNIS R. FORD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela L. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Maureen B. Brodoff for the defendant.

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

WILKINS, J.

The defendant was convicted of unlawfully carrying a firearm under his control in a motor vehicle in violation of G.L.c. 269, § 10 (a). Officer William Chase of the Watertown police department found the firearm in plain view when he opened the motor vehicle's locked trunk to place eight-track tapes in it for safekeeping. He had seen the tapes in the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle which...

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