{"id":196,"date":"2013-04-18T05:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T05:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2013\/04\/massachusetts-supreme-judicial-4.html"},"modified":"2013-04-18T05:21:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T05:21:45","slug":"massachusetts-supreme-judicial-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-supreme-judicial-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirms holding of Commonwealth v. Cruz in recent decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=1589595361410307716&amp;q=commonwealth+v.+cruz&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,22&amp;as_vis=1\"><u>Commonwealth v. Cruz<\/u><\/a>, the Supreme Judicial Court held that the smell of marijuana did not give an officer probable cause to conduct a search.  <a href=\"http:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/massachusetts\/supreme-court\/2013\/sjc-11214.html\"><u>Commonwealth v. Daniel<\/u><\/a>, a recent decision by the Supreme Judicial Court, affirms the holding from <u>Cruz<\/u>.  The Daniels decision may provide a defense to a drug stop for a B<a href=\"http:\/\/www.delsignorelaw.com\">oston criminal defense lawyer<\/a> based on the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.  <\/p>\n<p>Boston police officer was patrolling Dorchester in the early hours of the morning when he observed a SUV without a driver&#8217;s side headlight make a left hand turn without signaling. The officer stopped the vehicle and when approaching the car noticed that the man sitting in the passenger&#8217;s seat was rocking back and forth. The officer could also smell marijuana when he approached the vehicle, and when he asked the driver if there was marijuana in the vehicle, the driver produced two small bags from her pockets. The driver also emptied all other possessions from her pocket. <\/p>\n<p>Based on this behavior, the officer suspected that the defendant was concealing something more, so her ordered the driver to pull over further and ordered that the passenger and then driver exit the vehicle. The officer searched the passenger and subsequently the driver, finding no contraband on either person. The officer then searched the vehicle and found a firearm in the glove box. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-supreme-judicial-4\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirms holding of Commonwealth v. Cruz in recent decision\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Commonwealth v. Cruz, the Supreme Judicial Court held that the smell of marijuana did not give an officer probable cause to conduct a search. Commonwealth v. Daniel, a recent decision by the Supreme Judicial Court, affirms the holding from Cruz. The Daniels decision may provide a defense to a drug stop for a Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitutional-defenses-in-drug-cases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirms holding of Commonwealth v. Cruz in recent decision &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; April 18, 2013<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Since Commonwealth v. 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