Commonwealth v. Haynes

The defendant is charged with carrying a firearm (subsequent offense), unlawful possession of ammunition, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, and possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number. After the allowance of the defendant’s motion to suppress, the Commonwealth brought this interlocutory appeal. We reverse.

Facts. The defendant’s arrest and discovery of the gun and ammunition in his rental car occurred on November 8, 2009, a Sunday night, shortly after 9:30 p.m. While patrolling in what they knew to be a high crime area of the Dorchester section of Boston,* 1 State Trooper…