Commonwealth v. Zorn

A criminal complaint was filed on May 16, 2003, charging the defendant, Robert H. Zorn, with indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen, along *229with several other charges. Upon reconsideration, a District Court judge allowed the defendant’s motion to suppress all evidence discovered by means of a search warrant executed at the defendant’s residence. The judge ruled that the information in the warrant affidavit was unreliable because the affiant received all her information through so-called “totem pole” hearsay and never spoke with the victim or her mother. We conclude…