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9 Mass. App. Ct. 832

Commonwealth v. Grasso

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided January 22, 1980

Massachusetts Appeals Court · decided 1980-01-22

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1982

2 state decisions

Relies on 1 Mass. App. Ct. 499 - Commonwealth v. Ennis

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Decided 1980-01-22

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¶1The defendant appeals from his conviction of unlawfully distributing a controlled substance. As the facts of this case are indistinguishable in principle from those of Commonwealth v. Ennis, 1 Mass. App. Ct. 499 (1973), it was error for the judge to deny the defendant the name of the informant who had accompanied the undercover police officer to the meeting with the drug seller and who was clearly in a position to make an in-court identification of the seller.

¶2 Judgment reversed.

¶3 Verdict set aside.

Hugh W. Samson for the defendant. Kevin Connelly, Assistant District Attorney (Michael J. Traft, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.
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