Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court April 14, 1998 (Commonwealth v. Alvarado)

Greaney, J.

The defendant was charged in the Holyoke Division of the District Court Department under G. L. c. 269, § 10 (a), with carrying a firearm without having a license to do so. He filed a motion to suppress “evidence seized by the police *278when they stopped and searched a motor vehicle in which the [defendant was a passenger,” basing the motion on art.