COMMONWEALTH v. ALVARADO


423 Mass. 266 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH v. ALEX ALVARADO, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

July 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Seddon (John J. Barter with him) for the defendant.

Susanne Levsen, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

We consider, on further appellate review, the question whether the defendant's motion to suppress a gun that the police seized from him should have been allowed. A District Court judge denied the suppression motion, which was based on art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights and the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. A divided Appeals Court agreed, affirming the defendant's conviction of carrying a firearm without...

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