Massachusetts Appeals Court September 8, 1997, No. 97-P-168 (Commonwealth v. Crowley)

The Commonwealth appeals from an order of a Superior Court judge allowing the defendants’ motions to suppress evidence on the ground that the judge’s application of G. L. c. 272, § 99 P, to evidence provided by a private individual was error.

We summarize the judge’s findings. A boarder in the defendants’ home secretly made tape recordings of the defendants’ beating their seven year old daughter.