Commonwealth v. Rosado

Before us is the Commonwealth’s interlocutory appeal from an order of a District Court judge allowing the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence seized during a warrantless stop of a motor vehicle. After an evidentiary hearing at *209which State Trooper David Pinkham was the sole witness, the judge concluded that Pinkham lacked constitutional justification to (1) open the door to the defendant’s vehicle, (2) seize an item that was not an illegal weapon, and (3) remove the defendant from the vehicle and restrain him. We conclude that the judge erred in applying the law to the facts found and…