Commonwealth v. Paiva

The defendant appeals from convictions on three of the seven charges contained in four complaints. All of the alleged offenses stemmed from and were directly related to the defendant’s involvement in a traffic accident. In the aftermath of that accident the defendant was arrested for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor and that arrest, in turn, led to the discovery of two unauthorized firearms, one of which had been stolen.

None of the questions raised on appeal has merit and only a brief discussion of each is warranted. We thus treat the claims seriatim,…