Commonwealth v. Turner

This case presents once again the question of what evidence is needed in an affidavit in support of a search warrant to establish the nexus between a drug dealer’s residence and his drug supply. After a District Court judge allowed the defendants’ motions to suppress drugs and other items found in the residence of Courtney Turner, the Commonwealth applied to a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for leave to take an interlocutory appeal. See Mass.R.Crim.P. 15(a)(2), as appearing in 422 Mass. 1501 (1996). Leave was granted to take an appeal to this court. The Commonwealth also appeals…