Massachusetts Appeals Court· 10/26/2015
Commonwealth v. Ortiz
Citations
- 88 Mass. App. Ct. 573
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- affirming suppression of evidence found in course of inventory search where officer testimony showed that \sole purpose of impounding and searching the defendant's vehicle and its contents\ was to search \for evidence of drug activity without a warrant\
- affirming suppression of evidence found in course of inventory search where officer testimony showed that \sole purpose of impounding and searching the defendant's vehicle and its contents\ was to search \for evidence of drug activity without a 20 warrant\
- judge's finding that inventory search was pretext was supported by police decision to assign traffic stop to State police officer \with his narcotics-sniffing dog in tow\
- inventory search had investigatory pretext; at direction of Federal agents, State police conducted traffic stop and arrest of defendant for \sole purpose of impounding and searching the defendant's vehicle\
- inventory policy used as pretext to conduct investigatory search
- discussing difference between investigatory search and inventory search
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Judges: Sullivan, Maldonado, Massing
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7 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. BuckleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-02-14· cited 45×
- Commonwealth v. DavisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-01-14· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. OliveiraMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-03-28· cited 21×
- Commonwealth v. AbdallahMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-07-28· cited 9×
- Commonwealth v. Crowley-ChesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-03-09
- Commonwealth v. Rosario-SantiagoMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2019-10-02
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Superior Court· 2016-02-18
Cites
21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
- Whren v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1996-05-15· cited 7,105×
- South Dakota v. OppermanSupreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 3,445×
- Commonwealth v. ScottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-01-08· cited 225×
- Commonwealth v. Isaiah I.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-02-09· cited 156×
- Commonwealth v. Jones-PannellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-08-14· cited 141×
- Commonwealth v. AlvaradoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-14· cited 84×
- Commonwealth v. BenoitMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-06· cited 76×
- United States v. BuchnerFifth Circuit· 1993-11-10· cited 65×
- Commonwealth v. MubdiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-03-29· cited 56×
- Commonwealth v. MoynihanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-09-26· cited 54×
- United States v. EdwardsTenth Circuit· 2001-03-09· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. JessupMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-04-08· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. TisserandMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1977-06-02· cited 23×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-01-19· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. MuckleMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-08-23· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. WhiteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-07-11· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. BaptisteMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-02-06· cited 10×
- Commonwealth v. AvellarMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-10-31· cited 9×
- Commonwealth v. WoodmanMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-03-09· cited 5×
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