Commonwealth v. Blavackas

How courts have described this case

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

• small kitchen bread knife with approximately eight-inch blade not type of knife specified in first portion of G. L. c. 269, § 10 [b]
• defendant, arrested as disorderly person, was not in violation of § 10 [b\\ where eight-inch kitchen bread knife in her possession was not being used as dangerous weapon
• “The section . . . has been limited and indeed altered, by judicial decisions . . . [and] obviously is badly in need of careful legislative attention and comprehensive revision and rearranging”
• kitchen bread knife with eight-inch blade found in defendant’s purse would not support conviction under G. L. c. 269, § 10[6], if defendant was carrying it “for an innocent purpose”
• defendant’s sexual solicitation and conduct should not have been prosecuted as disorderly conduct; regardless, public element was not met where acts took place in car parked fifty feet from street, up driveway and on lawn area of house

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).