Commonwealth v. Billings

How courts have described this case

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

• police field test not sufficient without testimony on officer’s expertise and testimony on actual test results
• error in drug certificate admission not harmless where officer conducting field test did not have requisite experience, and where result of field test regarding composition of substance was left unidentified in officer’s trial testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Marte
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-08-15· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-04-11· cited 1×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• Commonwealth v. Fluellen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-04-16· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-07-02· cited 3×