Commonwealth v. Goggin

This is the Commonwealth’s interlocutory appeal (transferred by us from the Appeals Court) from an allowance by a Superior Court judge of the defendants’ motions to suppress evidence obtained by the Somerville police as a result of searching the defendants’ apartment. In allowing the defendants’ motions, the judge ruled that the police had violated the “knock and announce” rule in executing the warrant which authorized the search.

The judge made the following findings of fact with regard to the execution of the search warrant. On June 8, 1990, at 7:10 p.m., eight officers of the Somerville…