{"id":2197,"date":"2020-04-19T05:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2020-04-17T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:24:06","slug":"the-massachusetts-appeals-court-addresses-the-issue-of-reasonable-suspicion-when-police-observe-a-quick-hand-to-hand-transaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/the-massachusetts-appeals-court-addresses-the-issue-of-reasonable-suspicion-when-police-observe-a-quick-hand-to-hand-transaction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Massachusetts Appeals Court addresses the issue of reasonable suspicion when police observe a quick hand-to-hand transaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer, often the most promising defense in a case of drug distribution or a gun possession charge, is an attack on the Constitutional basis for the stop. \u00a0In many cases, police came that a quick transaction was an illegal drug sale and use that as a basis to seize a person and search their person. \u00a0When these cases make it to court, it is because the person had some illegal substance on them or illegally possessed a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>That was the legal issue under the Fourth Amendment and Article 14 that the Massachusetts Appeals Court had to address in the case of Commonwealth v. Kearse, decided on April 9, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened in the Kearse Case? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/the-massachusetts-appeals-court-addresses-the-issue-of-reasonable-suspicion-when-police-observe-a-quick-hand-to-hand-transaction\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading The Massachusetts Appeals Court addresses the issue of reasonable suspicion when police observe a quick hand-to-hand transaction\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer, often the most promising defense in a case of drug distribution or a gun possession charge, is an attack on the Constitutional basis for the stop. \u00a0In many cases, police came that a quick transaction was an illegal drug sale and use that as a basis to seize a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-and-seizure-defenses-in-criminal-cases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Massachusetts Appeals Court addresses the issue of reasonable suspicion when police observe a quick hand-to-hand transaction &#8212; 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