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· 7/9/2014

Commonwealth v. Craan

Citations

  • 469 Mass. 24
  • 13 N.E.3d 569

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that Federal statute may confer authority on State officers to arrest for Federal offenses
  • discussing the importance of implementing the people’s intent when examining the impact of a citizen initiative decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana under state law on the probable cause analysis
  • discussing the impact of decriminalization of marijuana on the authority of state law enforcement officers to search or seize
  • discussing the impact of decriminalization of marijuana on the authority of state law enforcement officers to search or seize
  • declining to allow state actors to circumvent voter initiative by claiming enforcement of federal law
  • declining to allow state actors to circumvent voter initiative by claiming enforcement of federal law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Ireland, Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, Lenk

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