Massachusetts Appeals Court May 12, 1998, No. 97-P-1368 (Commonwealth v. Murdough)

Spina, J.

A single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court granted the Commonwealth’s application for interlocutory review of a District Court judge’s order suppressing controlled substances which came into plain view as a result of the defendant stepping out of a car at the request of State police of*737ficers investigating his condition pursuant to their caretaking function.