Commonwealth v. Quilter

The Commonwealth appeals from a decision of a Boston Municipal Court judge on August 9, 2010, allowing the defendant’s motion to suppress a firearm seized by Boston police.1

*809From the motion judge’s undisputed findings, we learn that one morning in early May, 2010, a squad of officers of the Boston police department’s youth violence strike force went to the defendant’s home to execute an arrest warrant for the defendant, who was wanted on a charge of trespass. The defendant, dressed only in underclothes, answered the front door. When notified that the officers were there to execute a warrant…