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Commonwealth v. Williams

Citations

  • 453 Mass. 203
  • 900 N.E.2d 871
  • 2009 Mass. LEXIS 23

How courts have described this case

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  • ruling “any subjective expectation of privacy the defendant may have had [in a common area basement] was not objectively reasonable.”
  • rejecting ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on counsel's failure to introduce records where substance of records was already before the jury
  • focusing on factors not involving government's intrusion 4 to determine whether defendant had reasonable expectation of privacy
  • rejecting ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on counsel’s failure to introduce records where substance of records was already before the jury
  • standing may be established where defendant has either \a possessory interest in the place searched or in the property seized or if [he] was present when the search occurred\
  • standing and expectation of privacy are “interrelated” concepts but considered separately

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Judges: Cowin

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