Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/26/1990

Commonwealth v. Lyons

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564 N.E.2d 390
409 Mass. 16
1990 Mass. LEXIS 530

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holding that art. 14 forbids use of totality of circumstances test for evaluating whether reasonable suspicion exists to justify automobile stop
finding no reasonable suspicion where anonymous call identified two white males in car carrying drugs, because \the police verified no predictive details that were not easily obtainable by an uninformed bystander\
finding no reasonable suspicion where anonymous call identified two white males in car carrying drugs, because “the police verified no predictive details that were not easily obtainable by an uninformed bystander”
declining to follow the rule stated in Alabama v. White , 496 U.S. 325 , 328, 110 S.Ct. 2412 , 110 L.Ed.2d 301 [1990]
declining to follow the Gates totality-of-the-circumstances standard, noting that the standard is “flexible, but is also ‘unacceptably shapeless and permissive’ ” (quoting Commonwealth v. Upton, 458 N.E.2d 717, 724 (Mass. 1983))
stop based on anonymous informant’s tip improper where informant’s reliability and basis of knowledge not established

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Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Abrams, Nolan, O'Connor

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