Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ortiz
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 26, 2015No. AC 14-P-927PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMaldonado, J.
The Commonwealth brings this interlocutory appeal challenging the suppression, after an evidentiary hearing, of cocaine and of any postarrest statements. The Commonwealth contends that because a State police trooper lawfully stopped and arrested the defendant for failing to signal before switching lanes and for driving with a suspended Massachusetts license, the trooper’s postarrest warrantless inventory search of the contents of the defendant’s vehicle, specifically a backpack that was in the vehicle, was proper and, therefore, it was error for the judge to allow the motion to suppress. The…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Whren v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- South Dakota v. OppermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Commonwealth v. ScottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
- Commonwealth v. Isaiah I.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
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3Cited by8 opinions
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