· 11/30/1981
Commonwealth v. Egan
Citations
- 428 N.E.2d 342
- 12 Mass. App. Ct. 658
- 1981 Mass. App. LEXIS 1248
How courts have described this case
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- “particularized suspicion” that crime was in progress may be deduced from, among other factors, fact that car did not stop when signaled to do so and proceeded for another quarter mile
- defendant, an experienced law enforcement officer, \would have known that he could choose to resist [the officer's] request to search his car trunk\ and that \[h]is cooperative conduct obviated the need for a search warrant\
- car in isolated, untraveled area late at night
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Judges: Brown, Dreben, Kass
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