Commonwealth v. Mock

This is the Commonwealth’s interlocutory appeal from a Superior Court judge’s order allowing the defendant’s motion to suppress. See Mass.R.Crim.P. 15(a)(2), as appearing in 422 Mass. 1501 (1996). The Commonwealth claims that the judge erred when he ruled that the actions of the police constituted a seizure for which they lacked reasonable suspicion.

Factual background. The judge found the following facts. See Commonwealth v. Bottari, 395 Mass. 777, 780 (1985). At 9:55 p.m. on February 17, 1998, two Springfield police officers, Frederick Peck and John Zoilo, responded to 57/59 Federal Street,…