Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 4/27/2010
Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
Citations
- 456 Mass. 578
- 925 N.E.2d 21
- 2010 Mass. LEXIS 200
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting lack of field testing in determination that admission of certificate not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
- distinguishing between “the defendant’s transfer of cocaine he had just purchased, which would constitute distribution, [and] his division of the cocaine that [he and another] had simultaneously and jointly acquired, which would constitute joint possession”
- \No one has a reasonable expectation of privacy in items retrieved from the ground on a public park.\
- “inference . . . may be plausible, but cannot bear the weight of proof beyond a reasonable doubt” where inconsistent conclusion “equally inferable”
- evidence equally supported inconsistent inferences that buyer either obtained cocaine from third person or from defendant
- no fruit of poisonous tree issue if drugs had been dropped on ground in public park before police stopped defendant
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Marshall, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, Cordy, Botsford, Gants
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31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. KellyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-02-20· cited 76×
- Jamel Evans v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-08-06· cited 54×
- Commonwealth v. ScottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-02-08· cited 35×
- Commonwealth v. FredericqMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-04-24· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. LeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-06-17· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-04-05· cited 15×
- James v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2012-03-22· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. Quint Q.Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-11-12· cited 9×
- Commonwealth v. HernandezMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-07-16· cited 8×
- Commonwealth v. LawsonMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-04-25· cited 8×
- Commonwealth v. RuanoMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-02-18· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. SullivanMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-06-04· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. RivasMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-07-06· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. McIntoshMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-10-08· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. KingMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-07-02· cited 3×
- Commonwealth v. SepheusMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-11-21· cited 2×
- Commonwealth v. NegronMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-03-03· cited 2×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-04-07
- Commonwealth v. Ormond O., a juvenileMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-09-18
- Commonwealth v. CarrilloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-10-03
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