Commonwealth v. O'CONNOR

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that application of the inevitable discovery exception was not automatically precluded for primary evidence
• recognizing but limiting application under pt. 1, art. 14 of the Massachusetts Constitution
• describing the purposes of the exclusionary rule as including deterrence of police misconduct and preservation of the integrity of the law
• requiring \a high level of specificity and detail in a judge's findings and analysis of the facts\
• discussing inevitable discovery rule and Commonwealth's burden of proving its applicability
• “We think the severity of the constitutional violation is critical in deciding whether to admit evidence that it is shown would inevitably have been discovered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).