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COMMONWEALTH v. RUFO

429 Mass. 380 (1999)

COMMONWEALTH & another v. ANTHONY J. RUFO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 14, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory I. Massing, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth & another.

Jeffrey A. Gorlick for the defendant.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, & Richard L. Hoffman, Assistant United States Attorney, for the United States.

Eva S. Nilsen, Scott A. Weseley, & Andrew H. Good for Boston University Defender Program & another.

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

WILKINS, C.J.

On June 29, 1992, the Metropolitan District Commission police (now part of the Department of State Police)2 arrested the defendant for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and operating negligently so as to endanger. During an inventory search of the defendant's vehicle, an officer seized a closed briefcase from the front passenger seat. On...

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