{"id":1068,"date":"2016-09-21T06:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2016-09-21T06:31:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:31:15","slug":"massachusetts-highest-court-cites-racial-profiling-suppressing-evidence-gun-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-highest-court-cites-racial-profiling-suppressing-evidence-gun-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Highest Court cites racial profiling in suppressing evidence in gun case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that the police had no reasonable suspicion to stop a black male walking on the streets in Roxbury believed to be a suspect in a breaking and entering. As result of the seizure, the police found a hand gun; the Court ordered it suppressed as there was no basis for the detention of the defendant.<\/p>\n<p>The SJC overruled the decision of the motion judge who would found no Constitutional violation under the 4th Amendment or Article 14. The Court decision held:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flight provides little or no weigh in an analysis of reasonable suspicion unless the person is committing a crime, as the police could induce flight and thereby create a suspicion where none exits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-highest-court-cites-racial-profiling-suppressing-evidence-gun-case\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Massachusetts Highest Court cites racial profiling in suppressing evidence in gun case\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that the police had no reasonable suspicion to stop a black male walking on the streets in Roxbury believed to be a suspect in a breaking and entering. As result of the seizure, the police found a hand gun; the Court ordered it suppressed as there was no basis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Massachusetts Highest Court cites racial profiling in suppressing evidence in gun case &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; September 21, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that the police had no reasonable suspicion to stop a black male walking on the streets in Roxbury believed &#8212; September 21, 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-highest-court-cites-racial-profiling-suppressing-evidence-gun-case\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Massachusetts Highest Court cites racial profiling in suppressing evidence in gun case &#8212; 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