Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 6/9/1994

Commonwealth v. Warren

Citations

635 N.E.2d 240
418 Mass. 86
1994 Mass. LEXIS 309

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stating “[a] controlled purchase of narcotics, supervised by the police, provides probable cause to issue a search warrant”
“[a] controlled purchase of narcotics, supervised by the police, provides probable cause to issue a search warrant.”
“A controlled purchase of narcotics, supervised by the police, provides probable cause to issue a search warrant”
informant’s personal observation combined with police supervision of “controlled buy” was sufficient to satisfy the veracity of the informant
not fatal to probable cause finding that affiant did not observe informant enter target apartment to make controlled buy
“police [are] not required to risk disclosure of their surveillance by accompanying the informant” to an apartment within a multi-unit dwelling

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Judges: Liacos, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch, Greaney

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