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COMMONWEALTH v. KAREN K.

SJC-13170.

491 Mass. 165 (2023)

COMMONWEALTH v. KAREN K., a juvenile.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 4, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eva G. Jellison for the juvenile.

Kathryn Sherman , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

William D. Dalsen for Committee for Public Counsel Services & others.

Erik Lampmann & Rachel Stuckey , of the District of Columbia, Daniel Donadio , of New Hampshire, Sara E. Silva , Thomas J. Carey, Jr. , & Radha Natarajan for New England Innocence Project.

Katharine Naples-Mitchell for Families for Justice as Healing & another.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.

Following a patfrisk, Boston police officers found a loaded firearm in the waistband of the juvenile defendant, who subsequently was charged with four firearms-related offenses.1 The juvenile moved to suppress the evidence of the seized firearm on the grounds that police did not have reasonable suspicion...

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