Commonwealth v. Tomeo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• officer had reason to believe that intoxicated defendant, attempting to drive away in his car, would pose a risk to himself or others
• where defendant first taken into protective custody and, later arrested, “[o]nce the defendant was arrested ... the protective custody statute [c. 111B, § 8] became irrelevant”
• officer lawfully took \the defendant in protective custody\ outside a \Saugus drinking establishment\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).