Posted on July 17, 2014 in
In Commonwealth v. Korey Jordan, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled this week that police officers exceeded their authority in stopping a rental car that had been involved in a shooting two days earlier. (more…)
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Posted on July 15, 2014 in
When police officers make an arrest, they are permitted to search the person being arrested along with his immediate surroundings. Such a procedure is called a “search incident to arrest.” In United States v. Robinson, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the police may search for weapons, contraband, or evidence of a crime. ...
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Posted on July 9, 2014 in
As a result of a 2008 ballot initiative, it is no longer a crime to possess less than one ounce of marijuana in Massachusetts. The change in the law also changed the rules related to a police officer’s right to search your motor vehicle. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today in Commonwealth v....
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Posted on July 3, 2014 in
In an extremely important decision issued last week, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the police must obtain a search warrant before looking at the data contained in the cell phone of someone who has been arrested. The name of the case is Riley v. California. It overruled a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...
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Posted on June 20, 2014 in
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions recently regarding the legality of police searches which resulted from drug-detecting dog alerts and led to the arrest of a suspect. (more…)
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