COMMONWEALTH v. ALVAREZ


422 Mass. 198 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH vs. DAVID ALVAREZ (and seventeen companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

February 28, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger A. Cox (Deidre Lee Thurber, Paul F. Murphy, Richard Passalacqua & Timothy M. Farris with him) for David Alvarez & others.

Eric S. Brandt, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Mark Ferrait.

Marcia B. Julian, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


LYNCH, J.

All six defendants were convicted of cocaine trafficking in violation of G.L.c. 94C, § 32E (b) (1994 ed.), and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of G.L.c. 94C, § 32A (1994 ed.);2 all filed timely notices of appeal. They assert, inter alia, that a judge in the Superior Court erred in denying their motions to suppress evidence seized during the execution of a search warrant, arguing that...

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