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Commonwealth v. Johnson

Citations

  • 571 N.E.2d 623
  • 410 Mass. 199
  • 1991 Mass. LEXIS 271

How courts have described this case

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

  • police detective, experienced with narcotic trade, properly allowed to express opinion that amount of cocaine possessed by defendant was “consistent with an intent to distribute”
  • a detective experienced with narcotics investigations properly allowed to testify amount of cocaine found on defendant was consistent with intent to distribute
  • expert properly allowed to testify amount of cocaine found on defendant consistent with intent to distribute
  • amount of cocaine possessed by defendant was inconsistent with personal use
  • expert allowed to opine regarding evidence “consistent with” intent to distribute
  • seventy-one individual bags of cocaine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Dacos, Wilkins, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch

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