Commonwealth v. Pacheco

Pacheco had been indicted for possessing on October 3, 1983, 200 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute it. See G. L. c. 94C, § 31. The Commonwealth was granted (by a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court) leave to file an interlocutory appeal, and did appeal, from the allowance by a Superior Court judge of Pacheco’s motion to suppress certain items seized under a search warrant, which expressly authorized a search of the cellar of 8 Lyford Street, Dorchester. *566There the suppressed items were found by members of the Boston police department’s drug control unit. The warrant had been…