· 8/8/1990
Commonwealth v. Tart
Citations
- 557 N.E.2d 1123
- 408 Mass. 249
- 1991 A.M.C. 59
- 1990 Mass. LEXIS 361
How courts have described this case
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- fishing inspector’s sole purpose was to determine whether vessel had valid permit
- short sentence of incarceration was not disproportionate to offense of fishing commercially without required permit
- Imposition of a thirty-day jail sentence, for landing raw fish for the purpose of sale without a state commercial fisherman permit, of which twenty-three days were suspended, is not so disproportionate as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
- warrant-less inspection of fishing vessel did not violate state constitution
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Liacos, Abrams, Nolan, O'Connor, Greaney
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