COMMONWEALTH v. ARIAS

No. 89-P-1114.

29 Mass. App. Ct. 613 (1990)

563 N.E.2d 1379

COMMONWEALTH vs. ANDRE ARIAS (and four companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

December 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Merlin for Andre Arias.

M. Page Kelley, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Jose A. Nunez.

Kevin Connelly for Melvin Diaz.

Thomas J. Amoroso for Jose Gonzalez.

William M. Leonard for Rafael D. Mehejia.

John P. Corbett, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WARNER, C.J., FINE, & PORADA, JJ.


WARNER, C.J.

After a jury-waived trial in the Superior Court, each of the defendants was convicted of trafficking in cocaine in violation of G.L.c. 94C, § 32E(b)(1), as in effect prior to St. 1988, c. 124. Their appeals raise common and discrete issues.

On January 11, 1988, State Trooper Anthony Thomas, a member of the narcotics unit of the office of the district attorney for Plymouth County,...

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