Commonwealth v. Nattoo

The defendant, Ryan Nattoo, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm after having been convicted previously of a serious drug offense. See G. L. c. 269, § 10G(a). He filed a motion to suppress evidence of the firearm (a loaded .32 caliber handgun) on the ground that the police had obtained the handgun in the course of an unlawful search of the defendant’s property. A judge of the Superior Court conducted an eviden-tiary hearing and made findings of fact. On the basis of the *626findings, she concluded that the defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to the contents…