COMMONWEALTH v. CAST


407 Mass. 891 (1990)

556 N.E.2d 69

COMMONWEALTH vs. SAUL B. CAST.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

July 11, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. McBride for the defendant.

Robert C. Thompson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


LYNCH, J.

The defendant, Saul B. Cast, was found guilty by a jury in the Superior Court of trafficking in over 200 grams of cocaine. He timely appealed from his conviction and the denial of his motion to suppress the cocaine seized by police officers in the July 31, 1986, warrantless search of a closed suitcase in the trunk of his rented automobile.1 We transferred the case here on our own motion and now affirm.

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