Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/9/2012

Commonwealth v. Anderson

Citations

461 Mass. 616
963 N.E.2d 704
2012 WL 745214
2012 Mass. LEXIS 131

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holding veracity test may be satisfied where anonymous caller makes statements “comparable to an excited utterance”
basis of knowledge test satisfied where caller “personally witnessed two black men get into a silver or gold Toyota Camry bearing a registration plate 22C077”
sufficient corroboration to justify stop even where license plate number off by one number and color of car was reported as \silver or gold\
officer testified that he picked up a heavy backpack and felt what he believed to be a gun barrel
basis of knowledge test satisfied where a caller reported personally witnessing “two black men get into a silver or gold Toyota Camry bearing a registration plate 22CO77”
\an adjudication of a juvenile as a youthful offender . . . does not transform [the juvenile's] illegal act from an act of delinquency into a crime\

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