Commonwealth v. Scala

How courts have described this case

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• designation of second floor apartment encompassed search of attic inasmuch as entrance to attic was from second floor apartment and no other apartments shared the attic
• warrants are to be \read without poetic license\ but that proscription \is not also a proscription of common sense\
• “the prerequisite of an appeal as of right is not satisfied here”
• warrant authorizing search of “entire apartment located on the second floor” included third floor attic where attic was directly adjacent to second floor apartment and no other apartments in building had use of attic
• decision at an earlier suppression hearing not binding at subsequent hearing
• denying nonmutual collateral estoppel effect to an earlier suppression hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).