Massachusetts Appeals Court· 10/6/2006

Commonwealth v. Ewing

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67 Mass. App. Ct. 531
854 N.E.2d 993
2006 Mass. App. LEXIS 1014

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holding that a defendant did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in cigarette butts that he voluntarily abandoned as trash, and the DNA evidence obtained was admissible, absent evidence of coerced abandonment, even if the defendant’s trash was obtained under a ruse
holding that a defendant did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in cigarette butts that he voluntarily abandoned as trash, and the DNA evidence obtained was admissible, absent evidence of coerced abandonment, even if the defendant's trash was obtained under a ruse
holding that a defendant did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in cigarette butts that he voluntarily abandoned as trash, and the DNA evidence obtained was admissible, absent evidence of coerced abandonment, even if the defendant’s trash was obtained under a ruse
upholding arrest of a defendant on an unrelated warrant, which police used to obtain a DNA sample
defendant had no expectation of privacy in cigarette butts that he abandoned and that were used to obtain known DNA sample

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Judges: Smith

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