COMMONWEALTH v. GONSALVES


429 Mass. 658 (1999)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN D. GONSALVES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 14, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

J. Drew Segadelli (Janet S. Stateman with him) for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

The defendant is charged with trafficking in cocaine in violation of G. L. c. 94C, § 32E (b). The cocaine was seized by a State trooper, who, while on routine traffic patrol at about 9 P.M. on March 5, 1997, stopped a taxicab on Route 195 near Marion, after he had seen the taxicab drift over a marked lane into the breakdown lane. In the course of the stop, the trooper ordered the defendant, who was...

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