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- Title: Commonwealth v. Rachelle A. Dimatteo (And
- Author : Appeals Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 02, 1981
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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Where, after police officers had stopped the two defendants' automobile and arrested them for an armed robbery committed only minutes before, another officer observed on the floor of the automobile an open pocketbook of the type described by the victim of the robbery as carrying the gun used by the robber, and where the officer then saw a gun and cash inside the pocketbook, the officer was entitled to search and seize the handbag and its contents. [548-551] Where counsel for two white defendants at a criminal trial in which the prosecutor was black peremptorily challenged the only black prospective juror on the venire, the trial Judge could appropriately find based on the timing and manner of the reasons subsequently offered for the challenge, that the reasons given were not genuine and that the challenge was exercised with intent to exclude the juror because of her race; thus no error occurred in the Judge's denial of the challenge. [551-553]