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COMMONWEALTH v. WILLIS

415 Mass. 814 (1993)

616 N.E.2d 62

COMMONWEALTH vs. MARCO WILLIS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 15, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth H. Anderson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

We once again consider the highly fact-based questions whether, in particular circumstances, (1) a police stop of a defendant was an arrest or merely a threshold inquiry and (2), if it was a threshold inquiry, whether there was a sufficient factual basis for conducting that preliminary inquiry.1 A judge sitting in the Boston Municipal Court ruled that the police arrested the defendant...

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