{"id":1799,"date":"2018-11-12T05:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2018-11-11T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:27:51","slug":"massachusetts-sjc-to-decide-whether-police-can-stop-for-one-crossing-of-the-fog-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-sjc-to-decide-whether-police-can-stop-for-one-crossing-of-the-fog-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts SJC to decide whether police can stop for one crossing of the fog line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will review a motion to suppress that was allowed out of the Eastern Hampshire District Court where the judge found that a single crossing of the fog line for 2 to 3 seconds did not provide reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop and was not a violation of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 89 Section 4A. \u00a0The case is <em>Commonwealth v. Zachariah Laros<\/em>e.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Laws\/GeneralLaws\/PartI\/TitleXIV\/Chapter89\/Section4A\">Massachusetts Lane Roadway statute<\/a> provides as follows:<\/p>\n<p>When any way has been divided into lanes, the driver of the vehicle shall so drive that the vehicle be entirely within a single lane, and shall not move from the lane which he is driving until he has first ascertained if such movement can be made with safety.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-sjc-to-decide-whether-police-can-stop-for-one-crossing-of-the-fog-line\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Massachusetts SJC to decide whether police can stop for one crossing of the fog line\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will review a motion to suppress that was allowed out of the Eastern Hampshire District Court where the judge found that a single crossing of the fog line for 2 to 3 seconds did not provide reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop and was not a violation of Massachusetts General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dui-defenses","category-important-sjc-decisions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Massachusetts SJC to decide whether police can stop for one crossing of the fog line &#8212; 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