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Commonwealth v. Anderson

Citations

  • 547 N.E.2d 1134
  • 406 Mass. 343
  • 1989 Mass. LEXIS 424

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the stop of driver fifteen minutes after scheduled termination of roadblock is unconstitutional
  • extending roadblock by half an hour invalidated a stop made after the roadblock was scheduled to end
  • requiring suppression of evidence obtained at sobriety checkpoint fifteen to thirty minutes after predetermined plan called for checkpoint to terminate
  • stopping a driver fifteen minutes after the scheduled termination of the roadblock is unconstitutional
  • defendant stopped fifteen minutes after scheduled end of roadblock suffered actual harm as result of deviation from plan
  • roadblock must “meet standard, neutral guidelines, and be conducted pursuant to a plan devised in advance by law enforcement supervisory personnel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Liacos, Lucos, Wilkins, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch, O'Connor, Greaney

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