Massachusetts Appeals Court· 10/9/1996

Commonwealth v. Bartlett

Citations

41 Mass. App. Ct. 468
671 N.E.2d 515
1996 Mass. App. LEXIS 826

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concluding extension of search not justified by trooper’s “eight innocuous observations[,]” including such facts as name on rental agreement was not driver’s and no tools in car despite driver’s being carpenter
tallying up multiple \innocuous observations . . . does not produce\ reasonable suspicion
officer's knowledge that vehicle was rented by another individual did not support reasonable suspicion that defendant was engaged in drug-related activity
eight innocuous observations made by police officer during routine traffic stop did not produce a sum of suspicion that justified further line of interrogation
where driver stopped for speeding, inquiry should pertain to status of driver’s license and automobile registration
‘[t]he vice in interrogations and searches based on a hunch is their essentially random and arbitrary nature, a quality inconsistent, under constitutional norms . . . with a free and ordered society’

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Judges: Brown, Kass

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