Commonwealth v. Carrasco

How courts have described this case

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

• “Nothing in the record suggests that, without going into the premises and investigating the second floor, the police should have suspected and could have discovered that there were two apartments on the second floor”
• upholding search of two apartments on second floor of building where affidavit described premises to be searched as \2nd floor\ and police did not know and had no reason to know there were two apartments on the second floor
• informant’s veracity bolstered by the fact that he identified as drug customers several individuals known to the police to be heroin dealers
• where informant had never before provided information to police, informant’s veracity was demonstrated by independent police corroboration of detailed information provided by informant
• first-time informant satisfied “veracity” prong by independent police check of detailed information provided by the informant
• presence at the location of a suspected drug transaction of an Oldsmobile automobile which an informant had identified ruled corroborative

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).