Commonwealth v. LeBlanc

This is an interlocutory appeal by the Commonwealth from a District Court judge’s allowance of the defendant’s motion to suppress. The judge ordered suppression of evidence flowing from the defendant’s extraterritorial arrest in Framingham by a Natick police officer. The appeal was allowed by a single justice of this court. Mass. R. Crim. P. 15(a), 378 Mass. 882 (1979). We affirm in part and reverse in part.

The judge made the following findings of fact. At 10 p.m. on February 5, 1988, while in a marked Natick police department automobile, Officer William Geissler of the Natick police…