· 11/14/1984
Commonwealth v. Sendele
Citations
- 470 N.E.2d 811
- 18 Mass. App. Ct. 755
- 1984 Mass. App. LEXIS 1791
How courts have described this case
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- bundles of worn bills, mostly ten- and twenty-dollar bills, but also some fifties and hundreds, totaling $33,020
- 14.4 grams of 37 per cent pure cocaine in rock form, standing alone, might not be sufficient to justify inference of intent to distribute
- narcotics officers were permitted to testify as to their opinion that content of vial was for defendant’s personal us'e but the cocaine in the valise was intended for distribution
- “[possession of a large quantity of an illicit narcotic raises an inference of intent to distribute”
- “Possession of a large quantity of an illicit narcotic raises an inference of intent to distribute”
- possession of large quantity of narcotics with considerable street value, combined with other factors, raise inference of intent to distribute
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Judges: Kaplan, Rose, Warner
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