Commonwealth v. Reynolds

The defendant Reynolds, indicted for receiving stolen goods and other offenses, moved in the Superior Court before trial to suppress evidence (the alleged stolen property) seized by the Commonwealth pursuant to a search warrant which had been issued by a District Court clerk on the affidavit of a police officer. Facts bearing on the motion to suppress were stipulated between the Commonwealth and the defendant. After consideration, a judge of the Superior Court denied the motion and, acting under G. L. c. 278, § 30A, reported the following question to the Appeals Court (whence we took it for…