Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Fraser
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 2, 1991PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
The defendant was charged with carrying a firearm without a license and unlawful possession of ammunition. G. L. c. 269, § 10(a) (1990 ed.). After a hearing, a Boston Municipal Court judge denied his pretrial motion to suppress the handgun and ammunition as the fruits of an unconstitutional search. A single justice of this court granted the defendant leave to take an interlocutory appeal. Mass. R. Crim. P. 15 (b) (2), 378 Mass. 882 (1979). We affirm.
We summarize the facts found by the motion judge. On the evening of January 29, 1990, Boston police officer Martin Columbo and his partner were…
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