Commonwealth v. Barnes

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth, pursuant to Mass.R.Crim.P. 15(a) (2), 378 Mass. 882 (1979), from the allowance of the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence. We conclude that the evidence should not have been suppressed.

We take our findings from the very meagre account given by the motion judge, supplemented by evidence elicited from the police officer who was the only witness at the hearing on the motion to suppress. During the course of an investigation of a fatal hit-and-run accident reported by witnesses to have involved a pick-up truck equipped with a snowplow bracket, the police…