Commonwealth v. Nutile

How courts have described this case

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

• there “can be no question that the detectives had the right to follow ... the defendant as [he] drove”
• based on knowledge of prior arrests, officers “knew that the defendant had possessed firearms in the past, and they were entitled to protect themselves”
• no expectation of privacy with respect to items thrown from car during justifiable police chase
• no reasonable expectation of privacy in drugs voluntarily thrown from vehicle
• no expectation of privacy in drugs thrown from car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).