Commonwealth v. Neilson

The defendant, Erie W. Neilson, is charged with illegal possession of marihuana and cultivating and distributing marihuana, in violation of G. L. c. 94C, §§ 32C, 34 (1994 ed.). A District Court judge allowed the defendant’s motion *76to suppress evidence and contraband obtained in a search of his dormitory room at Fitchburg State College. A single justice of this court granted the Commonwealth’s application for an interlocutory appeal from the allowance of the defendant’s motion and transmitted the case to the Appeals Court. We transferred the case here on our own initiative and now affirm the…