Commonwealth v. Bongarzone

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to consider claims of defendant raised in memorandum of law presented to single justice and reprinted in defendant’s appendix
• “it is irrelevant that the occupant is standing outside the vehicle at the time of the arrest”
• evidence that defendant discussed the drugs with cohorts and transported the drugs supported finding of joint venture
• defendant must know of the criminal enterprise, actively participate, and do something in furtherance of it
• where defendants failed to raise issue in trial court, but where this court later issued relevant decisions, court reached claims not raised below
• no showing police officer testified falsely in order to procure indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).