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COMMONWEALTH v. COYNE

No. 95-P-1013.

44 Mass. App. Ct. 1 (1997)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN F. COYNE (and two companion cases).

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 20, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander M. Esteves for Michael Coyne.

Regina Zupan, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Douglas Hall.

William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Peter M. Dempsey, for John F. Coyne, submitted a brief.

Present: ARMSTRONG, DREBEN, & JACOBS, JJ.

ARMSTRONG, J.

The three defendants were convicted of trafficking in cocaine in an amount exceeding 100 grams, G. L. c. 94C, § 32E(b)(3). The three were caught red-handed (indeed, videotaped) in the act of making the sale to undercover State police officer Michael Grassia. They had been put in touch with Grassia by one Lloyd Goldman, himself a seller of cocaine, who had been convicted but promised a lenient sentence for cooperating with the Commonwealth...

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