COMMONWEALTH v. SANTANA


420 Mass. 205 (1995)

COMMONWEALTH vs. HECTOR R. SANTANA. COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSE C. SUOZO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

May 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel W. Rice for Hector R. Santana.

Jane E. Ross for Jose C. Suozo.

John E. Bradley, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


ABRAMS, J.

On the afternoon of June 5, 1992, two State police troopers, Trooper John Brooks and Lieutenant Bruce Gordon, while sitting in a marked police cruiser on the side of the road, noticed an automobile in disrepair driving on Route 24 in West Bridgewater. The troopers were experienced drug officers assigned to be on the lookout for traffic violations as well as illegal drug activity during their highway patrol duty. The automobile noticed by the troopers was...

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