The Utah Court of Appeals held that credible officer testimony established probable cause for a plain-view drug seizure despite missing body-camera footage and later inconclusive field testing.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court held that a firearm report and association with a matching passenger did not create individualized reasonable suspicion to frisk a juvenile.
The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a probationer’s convictions, ruling that an unambiguous search waiver covered his cellphone and that later forensic extraction stayed within the warrant.
An equally divided Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed suppression of a firearm found after police impounded and searched an unregistered SUV parked off the public way.
The Massachusetts SJC held that 109- and 123-day delays in seeking cell phone search warrants were reasonable under article 14’s totality-of-the-circumstances test.
The Massachusetts SJC held that a coordinated foot pursuit seized a suspect before he discarded drugs, but upheld the stop based on preexisting reasonable suspicion.
The Superior Court held that cannabis odor supported extending a traffic stop and, after the driver admitted he lacked a medical-marijuana card, supplied a substantial basis for a vehicle search warrant.
The Indiana Court of Appeals suppressed drugs found after officers facilitated a detection dog’s entry into a vehicle before probable cause existed.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court held that police could not open a soft backpack without evidence that an exterior patfrisk would be futile or unsafe.
The Utah Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of a motion to suppress evidence seized in plain view during a traffic stop, holding that an officer’s probable cause determination was reasonable under the totality of the circumstances even though the detective’s body camera was not recording and subsequent field tests on the seized baggie returned negative or inconclusive results.