COMMONWEALTH v. STRAW

No. 94-P-318.

38 Mass. App. Ct. 738 (1995)

COMMONWEALTH vs. MARLON A. STRAW.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 14, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownlow M. Speer, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Angela Park Read, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: BROWN, PERRETTA, & LAURENCE, JJ.


BROWN, J.

On the morning of December 6, 1988, Marlon A. Straw was tipped off that the Boston police were imminently arriving at his family's home in Dorchester with a warrant for his arrest.1 As the police entered the front door, Straw threw a briefcase out the window of his second-floor bedroom at the back of the house. It landed in the rear yard between the house and a wrought iron...

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