COMMONWEALTH v. LONG

SJC-12868.

485 Mass. 711 (2020)

COMMONWEALTH v. EDWARD LONG.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Warren for the defendant.

Cailin M. Campbell , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Rebecca Kiley , Committee for Public Counsel Services, Matthew R. Segal , Jessica Lewis , & Jessie J. Rossman , for Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Oren N. Nimni , Katharine Naples-Mitchell , Chauncey B. Wood , & Radha Natarajan , for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


At about eleven o'clock on a November morning, two members of the Boston police department's youth violence strike force, who had been driving an unmarked vehicle, noticed a maroon Mercedes pass in front of them on a residential street. The driver was a Black man. The officers decided to query the vehicle's license plate in their onboard...

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