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- Title: Commonwealth v. Duke Wilson (And Two
- Author : Appeals Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 03, 1995
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Search and Seizure, Glassine bag. Witness, Police officer. Evidence, Identification of inanimate object, Absence of witness, Inference. Practice, Criminal, Argument by prosecutor, Instructions to jury, Required finding. Controlled Substances. KASS, J. All three defendants were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to distribute, or possess with the intent to distribute, cocaine in an amount more than 100 grams. 2 A claim of error common to the appeal of each of the defendants is that the government's sole witness, a State trooper, was improperly permitted to give his opinion that the white substance he had observed in a ""glassine type household food storage bag"" was cocaine, the cocaine itself having been seized by the police but later suppressed. 3 There are five other points that are particular to the appeal of Wilson. We affirm the convictions.