Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 9/7/2005

Commonwealth v. Rivera

Citations

445 Mass. 119
833 N.E.2d 1113
2005 Mass. LEXIS 491

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denying motion to suppress when “police had no part in making, inducing, soliciting, or otherwise encouraging or abetting the making of the surveillance tape. The tape . . . fell into their hands”
finding no wiretap statute violation where “police had no part in making, inducing, soliciting, or otherwise encouraging or abetting the making of the surveillance tape. The tape … [simply] fell into their hands.”
affirming denial of defendant’s motion to suppress audiovisual recording from surveillance camera
“The elements of armed assault with intent to rob are that the defendant, armed with a dangerous weapon, assaults a person with a specific or actual intent to rob the person assaulted.”
proper to instruct on felony-murder before felony-murder in second degree

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Judges: Cordy, Cowin, Marshall

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