COMMONWEALTH v. KILLACKEY


410 Mass. 371 (1991)

572 N.E.2d 560

COMMONWEALTH vs. CHARLES KILLACKEY (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Berkshire.

June 10, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Caccaviello, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

P. Keyburn Hollister for Charles Killackey.

Louis J. Oggiani for Eramya Alexandrian.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

A judge of the Superior Court allowed the defendants' motions to suppress evidence seized in a warrantless police search of a motor vehicle.2 The judge concluded that no exigent circumstances excused the police from their normal obligation to obtain a search warrant. A single justice of this court allowed the Commonwealth leave to take an interlocutory appeal. Because the police had...

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