{"id":2806,"date":"2022-01-06T05:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T10:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2022-01-04T18:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T23:33:56","slug":"can-police-search-you-during-a-traffic-stop-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/can-police-search-you-during-a-traffic-stop-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Police Search You During a Traffic Stop in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Fourth Amendment is a very important right. However, it is often overshadowed by its many, many, exceptions. The Massachusetts Appellate Court recently examined a patfrisk case stemming from a motor vehicle stop. At this stop, the highly dangerous drug fentanyl was found. Fentanyl is often so potent that 3 milligrams is enough to kill a grown man. To put this into perspective, 3 milligrams of fentanyl is difficult to see with the naked eye. The Massachusetts Appellate Court looked at a motion to suppress fentanyl seized during a traffic stop in\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/128archive.com\/Disposition\/ViewDispositionDocInHtml?dispositionId=17066&amp;ispublicview=True\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Commonwealth v. Wade<\/span><\/em><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What happened in the\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Wade\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">case?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Defendant Wade allegedly sped past a state trooper at 11 pm while the officer was pulled over on the side of the road conducting another stop. Wade was with four other passengers. Officers claimed that the car smelled like marijuana. In addition, the driver did not have a license or registration. Officer also said they found it suspicious that one passenger had his hood up and his hand in his pockets. The officer demanded he remove his hand from his pockets but the passenger did not. Other passengers were reaching in their pants and pockets. Wade put his hands in his waistband. The officers then pulled Wade out of the car and searched him. They found a pill bottle with the name removed. The fentanyl was found in the bottle.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/can-police-search-you-during-a-traffic-stop-in-massachusetts\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Can Police Search You During a Traffic Stop in Massachusetts\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fourth Amendment is a very important right. However, it is often overshadowed by its many, many, exceptions. The Massachusetts Appellate Court recently examined a patfrisk case stemming from a motor vehicle stop. At this stop, the highly dangerous drug fentanyl was found. Fentanyl is often so potent that 3 milligrams is enough to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-massachusetts-court-decisions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can Police Search You During a Traffic Stop in Massachusetts &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; January 6, 2022<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Fourth Amendment is a very important right. 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