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· 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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