COMMONWEALTH v. SANTIAGO

SJC-11619

470 Mass. 574 (2015)

COMMONWEALTH v. ANGEL SANTIAGO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

February 4, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine E. McMahon , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Frederic G. Bartmon for the defendant.

Michael K. Fee , P. R. Goldstone , Alex G. Philipson , Matthew R. Segal , & Jessie J. Rossman , for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Murat Erkan , for Erkan & Associates, LLC, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.


The defendant has been indicted on a charge of unlawful distribution of a class B controlled substance (cocaine), second or subsequent offense. See G. L. c. 94C, § 32A (c), (d). He was stopped and arrested by police officers at the same time and in the same location as another man, Edwin Ramos, to whom the Commonwealth alleges...

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