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Commonwealth v. Murphy

Citations

  • 63 Mass. App. Ct. 11
  • 822 N.E.2d 320
  • 2005 Mass. App. LEXIS 106

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that police officer’s demand that defendant produce identification, made as officer conducted patffisk, “was not a request for voluntary cooperation, but a show of authority with which a reasonable person would feel compelled to comply”
  • suppressing firearm found in vehicle after determining impoundment of vehicle was unlawful
  • improper determination to impound vehicle was a product of an unlawful inventory search of defendant’s person
  • detailed observation of keys properly seized from defendant \improperly transformed an inventory search of [defendant's] person into an investigatory search\

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Judges: Grasso

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