Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/14/1995

Commonwealth v. Berry

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420 Mass. 95
648 N.E.2d 732
1995 Mass. LEXIS 145

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cigarettes and matches left on counter in public area of police station; expectation of privacy not reasonable
life sentence affirmed for juvenile convicted of breaking into apartment and murdering eighty-seven year old widow with butcher knife in her sleep
individual had no reasonable expectation of privacy in a package of cigarettes left on a police counter for several hours
photographs with evidential value \are not rendered inadmissible solely because they are gruesome or may have an inflammatory effect on the jury\ [quotation omitted]
judge’s factual findings at evi-dentiary hearing determine whether government’s conduct intrudes on defendant’s reasonable expectation of privacy so as to constitute search in constitutional sense
\trial judges must take care to avoid exposing the jury unnecessarily to inflammatory material that might inflame the jurors' emotions and possibly deprive the defendant of an impartial jury\

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Judges: Nolan

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