Commonwealth v. Saint Louis

The Commonwealth appeals from the allowance of motions to suppress. We vacate and remand for further findings.

Officer Simmons of the Bridgewater State College campus police testified as follows. On February 11, 2001, there was a dance on campus. That morning, while he was patrolling the college campus in his police cruiser at about 1:00 a.m., he noticed a Toyota car in a college parking lot with the engine running. He was within ten to fifteen feet of the car and saw that the car was occupied by four people. The two front-seat occupants were black males.2 When they saw the officer, they…