Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/17/1998

Commonwealth v. Kennedy

Citations

426 Mass. 703
690 N.E.2d 436
1998 Mass. LEXIS 50

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holding that an officer’s training, education, and knowledge, along with factors similar to those above, can support probable cause to arrest and search the defendant
declining to “adopt a per se rule that an officer must actually see an object exchanged . . . before he has sufficient evidence supporting probable cause to arrest”
finding probable cause for arrest where officer with “extensive experience in street level narcotics sales” witnessed exchange of unidentified objects through car window in high drug area with a known drug dealer
finding probable cause for arrest based on observations and experience of police officer who saw exchange of small object from waistband for money, furtive movements of participants, in high crime area
defendant, in a “high drug area,” exchanged unseen items with a known drug dealer who ran from defendant’s car to a house and back
even though officer did not see what was exchanged, officer’s training, education, and knowledge supported reasonable suspicion of drug transaction

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Judges: Marshall

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