Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/16/1997

Commonwealth v. Torres

Citations

424 Mass. 153
674 N.E.2d 638
1997 Mass. LEXIS 13

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holding that an officer may not interrogate passengers unless the officer has “reasonable suspicion, grounded in specific, articulable facts” that a particular passenger is involved in criminal activity or “other suspicious conduct”
reversing trial court’s finding of a lawful seizure based solely on the passenger’s “unusual behavior” of exiting the car
failing to acknowledge officer at window for twenty seconds and getting out of car when officer tapped on window insufficient to support continued detention
\Adding up eight innocuous observations -- eight zeros -- does not produce a sum of suspicion that justifies . . . an order of persons out of their car . . .\
“Adding up eight innocuous observations — eight zeros — does not produce a sum of suspicion that justifies a line of interrogation, an order of persons out of their car, and a search of their car”
continued detention of driver and passenger impermissible where driver had produced license and registration in satisfaction of purpose of stop

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Judges: Greanby

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