COMMONWEALTH v. DOOCEY

No. 00-P-922.

56 Mass. App. Ct. 550 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. WILLIAM F. DOOCEY, JR.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Diamond, III, for the defendant.

Kajal K. Chattopadhyay, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LAURENCE, MASON, & BERRY, JJ.


BERRY, J.

This appeal involves an investigatory stop and frisk in the context of rapidly unfolding events, commencing with a report of shots fired, fleeing suspects, a fleeting view by an eyewitness yielding only a fragmentary description of the shooter, quickened police patrol of the subject area, followed, within moments, by a stop on the street of a suspect believed to be armed and dangerous and, then, a patfrisk which in fact

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