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Commonwealth v. Laureano

Citations

  • 584 N.E.2d 1132
  • 411 Mass. 708
  • 1992 Mass. LEXIS 31

How courts have described this case

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  • no seizure where “detectives . . . followed the defendant into a public rest room where they both had a right to be”
  • no seizure where detective followed defendant into public restroom, where both had right to be
  • no seizure where detectives followed defendant into public restroom
  • defendant, prior to police speaking with him or displaying any indicia of authority, walked to a public men’s room in a bar, detectives followed, and then saw in plain view a bag of white powder, no seizure for art. 14 purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch

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