{"id":2680,"date":"2021-03-27T06:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2021-04-25T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T14:35:55","slug":"massachusetts-appeals-court-addresses-pretextual-inventory-search-under-the-4th-amendment-in-recent-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-appeals-court-addresses-pretextual-inventory-search-under-the-4th-amendment-in-recent-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Appeals Court addresses Pretextual Inventory Search under the 4th Amendment in recent ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Court of Appeals held that pretextual inventory searches do not comport with the Fourth Amendment in the case of Commonwealth v. Lek. In the Lek case from Lowell the police detective conceded that he was using traffic infractions in order to detective gang activity. \u00a0In other words, traffic stops were being made not to enforce the traffic laws but with the hopes that guns, drugs or other evidence of gang activity would be discovered during the stop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened in the <em>Lek <\/em>case? <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Detective and his partner were in plainclothes in an unmarked police car. According to the Detective, he and his partner were looking for motor vehicle violations to address gang suppression through motor vehicle stops. the Detective testified that he was not required to do traffic enforcement that night and was doing it by his own free will.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-appeals-court-addresses-pretextual-inventory-search-under-the-4th-amendment-in-recent-ruling\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Massachusetts Appeals Court addresses Pretextual Inventory Search under the 4th Amendment in recent ruling\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Court of Appeals held that pretextual inventory searches do not comport with the Fourth Amendment in the case of Commonwealth v. Lek. In the Lek case from Lowell the police detective conceded that he was using traffic infractions in order to detective gang activity. \u00a0In other words, traffic stops were being made not [&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-2680","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>Massachusetts Appeals Court addresses Pretextual Inventory Search under the 4th Amendment in recent ruling &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; March 27, 2021<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Massachusetts Court of Appeals held that pretextual inventory searches do not comport with the Fourth Amendment in the case of Commonwealth v. 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