Commonwealth v. Morrison

The Commonwealth appeals from an order of a District Court judge allowing the defendant’s motion to suppress all evidence seized during a warrantless entry into the apartment of a third party in which the defendant was present. We reverse the allowance of the motion to suppress because the defendant did not have a cognizable privacy interest in the apartment in question and, in any event, the search was justified by exigent circumstances.

I

On May 23, 1997, three officers of the Amherst police depart*512ment responded to a report of a shouting match at the residence of Jamie Daniels.1 They were…