COMMONWEALTH v. SHERIDAN

No. SJC-11543.

470 Mass. 752 (2015)

COMMONWEALTH v. MATTHEW J. SHERIDAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

February 27, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Rudof , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Pamela Alford , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


In the early morning hours of June 21, 2011, police officers stopped the defendant, Matthew J. Sheridan, for driving a minivan with an unilluminated headlight. During the stop, the officers saw in the vehicle a portion of what an officer identified as "about a [one]-ounce bag" of marijuana, protruding from under a rumpled T-shirt lying...

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