{"id":23397,"date":"2016-08-19T06:33:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23397"},"modified":"2016-08-19T06:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:33:46","slug":"ma-automatic-standing-only-applies-to-possessory-offenses-and-it-doesnt-apply-to-defendants-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23397","title":{"rendered":"MA automatic standing only applies to possessory offenses, and it doesn\u2019t apply to defendant\u2019s murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts automatic standing only applies to possessory offenses, and it doesn\u2019t apply to defendant\u2019s murder charge. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/docs\/sjc\/reporter-of-decisions\/new-opinions\/10640.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Miller<\/a>, 475 Mass. 212, 2016 Mass. LEXIS 605 (Aug. 17, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>The government showed probable cause for the defendant but the connection to firearms in defendant\u2019s property was tenuous. Indeed, firearms connected with the offense were found already. Nothing showed that defendant had anything at his house, YET, the good faith exception is enough to sustain this search because \u201cthe Defendant does not demonstrate evidence that the warrant is so lacking in probable cause that reliance on it is entirely unreasonable\u201d despite the lack of nexus. United States v. Baylor, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105939 (S.D.Iowa Aug. 4, 2016) [and this is a holding worth appealing because the court just isn\u2019t persuasive; lack of nexus is an utter lack of PC].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts automatic standing only applies to possessory offenses, and it doesn\u2019t apply to defendant\u2019s murder charge. Commonwealth v. Miller, 475 Mass. 212, 2016 Mass. LEXIS 605 (Aug. 17, 2016). The government showed probable cause for the defendant but the connection &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nexus","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23398,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397\/revisions\/23398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}