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· 12/17/1982

Commonwealth v. Aarhus

Citations

  • 443 N.E.2d 1274
  • 387 Mass. 735
  • 1982 Mass. LEXIS 1812

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • military of ficials had “legitimate, independent interest in conducting the search” where defendant, an enlisted member of the army, was implicated in murder of servicewoman
  • “precise description of the location of the knife from an informant known to the authorities tended to demonstrate the reliability of his information”
  • \the precise description of the location of the knife from an informant known to the authorities tended to demonstrate the reliability of his information\
  • detail of information is factor in over-all assessment of informant’s reliability
  • distinction between victim’s husband and an unnamed informant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch

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