Commonwealth v. Ramirez

*742After a bench trial, the defendant was convicted of carrying a loaded firearm without a license and defacing a firearm serial number.1 The defendant appeals only from the denial of his motion to suppress the firearm. The issue before us is whether a police officer was justified in stopping the defendant, who was walking with a man for whom the officer had an active *743arrest warrant involving the use of a firearm in the commission of a violent felony. Concluding that under these narrow circumstances police and public safety concerns outweighed the minimal intrusion on the defendant's liberty for…