COMMONWEALTH v. BRINSON


440 Mass. 609 (2003)

COMMONWEALTH vs. CEDRIC BRINSON (and five companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham J. Mayers for Cedric Brinson.

Todd M. Gornstein for Robert Horsley.

Donna Jalbert Patalano, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Spina, Cowin, Sosman, & Cordy, JJ.


SPINA, J.

Cedric Brinson and Robert Horsley were convicted of multiple drug charges. Before trial, a judge in the Superior Court denied the defendants' motion to suppress evidence seized by the police during an inventory search of Brinson's car made after arresting both men. Brinson's car was impounded at a commercial lot in a location different from the arrest, and the defendants claimed that the impoundment and search were invalid because the arrest was unrelated...

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