{"id":226,"date":"2013-11-26T05:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T05:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2013\/11\/defending-against-an-oui-arres.html"},"modified":"2013-11-26T05:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T05:12:14","slug":"defending-against-an-oui-arres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/defending-against-an-oui-arres\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging a Massachusetts OUI arrest by College Campus Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts OUI arrests by College Campus police may raise legal defenses that an <\/p>\n<p>experienced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\">Massachusetts OUI attorney<\/a> could raise in court. Campus police &#8211; or public safety officers &#8211; are limited by Massachusetts state law from many law enforcement duties of regular city and state police officers, and arrest made outside of these limitations could be defeated in court. The distinction between ordinary officers and campus police officers is critical because, as discussed in the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/massachusetts\/supreme-court\/2013\/sjc-11208.html\">Commonwealth v. Smeaton<\/a> , it can make a difference in the outcome of the case.<\/p>\n<p>College or university police officers are appointed as special State police officers under a <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Laws\/GeneralLaws\/PartI\/TitleII\/Chapter22C\/Section63\">Massachusetts statute (G.L. c. 22C, \u00a7 63)<\/a> that grants them the same authority to make arrests as regular police officers for any criminal offense within their jurisdiction. Even though students on campus have fewer rights to privacy because of the college&#8217;s interest in keeping the community safe, campus police officers also have less authority to make traffic stops or to question individuals on campus. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/defending-against-an-oui-arres\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Challenging a Massachusetts OUI arrest by College Campus Police\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts OUI arrests by College Campus police may raise legal defenses that an experienced Massachusetts OUI attorney could raise in court. Campus police &#8211; or public safety officers &#8211; are limited by Massachusetts state law from many law enforcement duties of regular city and state police officers, and arrest made outside of these limitations could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-offense-oui"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Challenging a Massachusetts OUI arrest by College Campus Police &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; November 26, 2013<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Massachusetts OUI arrests by College Campus police may raise legal defenses that an experienced Massachusetts OUI attorney could raise in court. 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