Court Opinion

ID: 6461814
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 12:48:42.332466+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:53:32.560911
License: Public Domain

Brown, J.
(dissenting). In addition to the information from an anonymous informant, the affidavit sets out the officer’s discovery from the trash search of “numerous large ziplock baggies, some of which contained [marijuana] . . . [and] paper work in the name []of Efrain Matías [the defendant] of 6 Rock-dale [Street,] 3rd floor, Worcester.” I do not believe this court needs to factor in the other information from the affidavits which the majority deems to be stale. I think that the trash pull in and of itself provides a sufficient basis for a magistrate to find probable cause to issue the initial search warrant. Compare Commonwealth v. Pratt, 407 Mass. 647, 660 (1990).