Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 7/25/1974

Commonwealth v. Antobenedetto

Citations

315 N.E.2d 530
366 Mass. 51
1974 Mass. LEXIS 693

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defendant having shown that evidence was seized pursuant to allegedly unjustifiable search, prosecution has burden of establishing reasonableness of search
Commonwealth bears burden of showing reasonableness of warrantless search challenged as invalid under Fourth Amendment
automobile exception to warrant requirement permits search of vehicle where probable cause supports search
no evidence adduced to support the reliability of the radio message
search legitimate where it is for \instrumentality\ or \evidence\ of crime
\under the Fourth Amendment searches conducted without valid warrants are presumed in the first instance to be unreasonable. It is then up to the government to show that a particular search falls within a narrow class of permissible exceptions\

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Judges: Tauro, Reardon, Quirico, Braucher, Hennessey, Kaplan, Wilkins

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