Legal Opinion
United States v. Ramos
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 17, 2010No. 09-2251PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
The issue presented is whether, within weeks of the Madrid commuter rail bombings in 2004, Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) police had reasonable suspicion of a terrorist plot on a major Boston bus and rail station permitting an officer to open the door of a van, which was, unusually, sitting stationary but with a driver and passengers inside, in the station’s commuter parking lot. The prosecution and defendant agree that this action of the MBTA police, for Fourth Amendment purposes, amounted to a “seizure,” requiring reasonable suspicion that criminal activity…
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