Cowell v. Commonwealth

Alphonso Cowell purports to appeal from an order of a single justice of this court denying his application for leave to appeal from certain rulings by judges in the Superior Court concerning a motion to suppress. See Mass. R. Crim. P. 15 (a) (2), as appearing in 422 Mass. 1501 (1996).1 The Commonwealth has filed a motion to dismiss.

This case is not properly before us. Neither the Commonwealth nor a defendant may appeal to the full court from a single justice’s denial of an application for leave to pursue an interlocutory appeal. The same considerations that make an appeal by the Commonwealth…