Commonwealth v. White, 469 Mass. 96 (2014)
Jul 11, 2014OUTCOME: Reversal of the order denying the defendant's motion to suppress, conviction vacated, and case remanded.
Police arrested the defendant on an outstanding warrant, towed his car and found drugs in a medication container. After the Court of Appeals upheld the conviction, the Supreme Judicial Court reversed ... and held that the search of the container was unlawful, and the evidence should have been suppressed.
