Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1974

The court held that police exceeded the constitutional limits of a protective search when they unzipped an opaque packet found beneath the front seat of the defendant's vehicle. Because the search was not supported by probable cause and the packet could not reasonably have contained a weapon, the heroin was…

The court held that it had jurisdiction to consider the estranged husband's request for declaratory and injunctive relief, but that he had no constitutional, statutory, or common-law right to prevent his wife from obtaining an abortion before fetal viability when her health was not endangered.