Commonwealth v. Mason

The defendant appeals from his convictions, after a jury trial in the Central Division of the Boston Municipal Court, of unlawful possession of a firearm and of ammunition. He argues that the motion judge erred in denying his motion to suppress those items, which he argued were the fruits of (1) a search of an apartment pursuant to an invalid warrant, (2) a seizure of his person without reasonable suspicion, and (3) an unlawful warrantless search of a plastic bag he dropped during his encounter with police. We reject these arguments and therefore affirm.

Background. We recite certain…