Panel considers whether consent to search was voluntary after police threatened warrant in Greaney case

The Appeals Court heard argument in Commonwealth v. Stephen Greaney on whether the search of a former police officer’s home was supported by voluntary consent or was the product of coercion when the chief of police and officers confronted the defendant at work and then accompanied him to his home.

Kevin Connolly, arguing for the Commonwealth, said officers corroborated a supervisor’s report that city property had been taken from municipal premises and that surveillance corroborated the account. Connolly urged de novo review of the…