MA: Def’s furtive movement was hiding a small quantity of MJ, and that didn’t justify search of the backseat area when he was out of car

During a traffic stop, defendant lifted himself up consistent with hiding something, and that justified an order to get out of the car. When only a small quantity of marijuana was found, the exigency dissipated, and a search of the back armrest was not justified because defendant made no movement in that direction. Commonwealth v. Meneide, 2016 Mass. App. LEXIS 60 (June 1, 2016).

A petition for a writ of mandamus to inspect a chair in the blood draw room a year after the draw wasn’t shown to be material to the defense of contamination of the original blood draw. In re Hawk, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 5760 (Tex. App. – Dallas May 31, 2016).*