Commonwealth v. Brass

The defendant appeals from convictions after a jury-waived trial in the District Court of unlawfully carrying a firearm and possessing a firearm with an altered serial number. He claims that his constitutional rights were violated when police officers made a warrantless entry into his hotel room, where they found a nine millimeter handgun and loaded ammunition clip.

After the judge denied the defendant’s motion to suppress, the case was tried upon stipulated facts as set forth in a police *89report. According to that report, the hotel manager went to room 208, from which the defendant and a…