COMMONWEALTH v. TRACY

No. 88-P-763.

27 Mass. App. Ct. 455 (1989)

539 N.E.2d 1043

COMMONWEALTH vs. PATRICK W. TRACY (and three companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

June 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownlow M. Speer, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Thomas A. Magee.

Elliot R. Levine for Patrick W. Tracy.

James Lang, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: DREBEN, SMITH, & WARNER, JJ.


DREBEN, J.

A few minutes before 9:00 P.M., on May 9, 1986, as the Triple A Supermarket in Needham was about to close, Patrick Tracy entered the market, asked for the manager, and held him up at gunpoint. Tracy left with about $5,600 in cash. Responding to a radio dispatch about the armed robbery, the police at first followed and then engaged in a 4.9 mile chase of a green Ford LTD whose driver refused to pull over. Pursued at times by four police cruisers with flashing...

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