Commonwealth v. Goncalves

After a hearing on the defendant’s pretrial motion, a judge of the District Court Department ordered the suppression of a firearm recovered from the defendant’s automobile at the time of his arrest for driving with a suspended license.1 A *154single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court granted the Commonwealth’s request for interlocutory review. We reverse and remand the case for further proceedings in the District Court.

We summarize the findings of the motion judge, supplemented where necessary to provide context with uncontroverted evidence adduced at the suppression hearing. See Commonwealth…