Commonwealth v. Fenderson

How courts have described this case

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• noting similarities between federal necessity requirement and the Massachusetts necessity requirement, and citing Ashley in construing the Massachusetts necessity requirement
• noting similarities between federal necessity requirement and the Massachusetts necessity requirement, and citing Ashley in construing the Massachusetts necessity requirement
• “The Commonwealth need not show that traditional investigative techniques were wholly unsuccessful or that the police had exhausted all other investigative procedures before filing its application for a warrant authorizing a wiretap”
• discovery of cocaine and safety deposit box keys in defendant’s apartment, viewed in light of defendant’s trafficking activities and fact that drug traffickers often use safety deposit boxes to hide money, established probable cause to search safety deposit boxes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).