Case Name: Commonwealth vs. Johnny Grasso
Court: Massachusetts Appeals Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1980-01-22
Citations: 9 Mass. App. Ct. 832
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commonwealth vs. Johnny Grasso.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Appeals Court Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 832–833

Head Matter:
Commonwealth vs. Johnny Grasso.
January 22,1980.

Opinion:
The 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.
Judgment reversed.
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.