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One question that comes up for a Massachusetts OUI Lawyer<\/a> is “when can a police officer make an arrest outside of his or her jurisdiction?” Whether a police officer had a basis to stop you under the Fourth Amendment is one of the first lines of defenses that is pursued in defending an OUI charge.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts answered the question of when a\u00a0local police officer can pull and charge a driver over with an OUI outside his or her jurisdiction in Commonwealth v. Bartlett.<\/a><\/p>\n

The defendant in Commonwealth v. Bartlett was facing his fifth OUI offense and was trying to suppress evidence citing that the officer pulled him over outside of his jurisdiction. The officer, in this case, was on patrol as a Merrimac police officer and crossed into the neighboring town of Amesbury during his shift. While returning to Merrimac, he witnesses defendant weaving and swerving. After defendant turned into a parking lot, the officer blocked the defendant and informed Amesbury police and then initiated a traffic stop. Unable to remove his license, bloodshot eyes and a failing of the sobriety test led the defendant to receive an OUI. The Merrimac officer made the original stop while Amesbury police administered the field sobriety test.<\/p>\n

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One question that comes up for a Massachusetts OUI Lawyer is “when can a police officer make an arrest outside of his or her jurisdiction?” Whether a police officer had a basis to stop you under the Fourth Amendment is one of the first lines of defenses that is pursued in defending an OUI charge. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dui-defenses"],"yoast_head":"\nWhen can an officer make an arrest outside of his jurisdiction? — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — May 17, 2013<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One question that comes up for a Massachusetts OUI Lawyer is "when can a police officer make an arrest outside of his or her jurisdiction?" 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