Commonwealth v. Maurice

Billings, Thomas P., J.

The defendant is charged with trafficking in cocaine (28 grams or more), possession of heroin with intent (subsequent offense), possession of cocaine with intent to distribute (subsequent offense), and three school zone violations. The charges concern the fruits of a warrantless search on April 3, 2011 of a Honda Civic in which the defendant was a passenger, followed by a warranted search on May 11, 2011 of the defendant’s person and a Toyota Camiy he was driving.

The defendant moved to suppress the fruits of both searches.1 On March 5, 2012 the Court (Inge, J.) allowed…