Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Briand
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided February 1, 2008No. 07-P-606PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDreben, J.
This is an interlocutory appeal by the Commonwealth authorized by a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court pursuant to Mass.R.Crim.P. 15(a)(2), as appearing in 422 Mass. 1501 (1996), following the allowance of the defendants’ motions to suppress evidence obtained by the Massachusetts Environmental Police. We reverse.
*161The only witness at the hearing on the motion to suppress was Sergeant Charles Ziemba. As found by the judge, and as supplemented by uncontested details, the circumstances were as follows. On July 2, 2006, at about 11:30 p.m., on entering the Swift River boat ramp and…
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