{"id":24440,"date":"2016-11-17T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24440"},"modified":"2016-11-17T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:28:13","slug":"ma-officers-observation-of-obvious-drug-transaction-by-car-pulling-up-on-street-was-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24440","title":{"rendered":"MA: Officer&#8217;s observation of obvious drug transaction by car pulling up on street was PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The experienced police officer\u2019s observation of defendant reaching into a car with Maine LPN was consistent with \u201ccar meets\u201d for drug sales, and that was probable cause. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/docs\/sjc\/reporter-of-decisions\/new-opinions\/15p1100.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Sanders<\/a>, 2016 Mass. App. LEXIS 164 (Nov. 15, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff complained that the AG\u2019s office requiring filing with them of an IRS schedule of charitable trusts violates the First Amendment right of free association. A Fourth Amendment claim is also filed, but it fails for lack of support and also appears reasonable on its face. But, the First Amendment argument is clear enough. \u201cThis Court discussed above the legitimacy of the Attorney General&#8217;s interest in protecting the public from illegal activities of charitable organizations. In her attempt to further that interest, the Attorney General requests information from all charitable organizations registered in the state. These requests are not unreasonable. This Court has found that the disclosure requirement is overly burdensome in the freedom of association context, but it is not prepared to find it unreasonable in the context of the Fourth Amendment. Given the lack of unreasonableness shown by TMLC, this Court need not determine whether a search occurred within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.\u201d Thomas More Law Ctr. v. Harris, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 158851 (C.D.Cal. Nov. 16, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experienced police officer\u2019s observation of defendant reaching into a car with Maine LPN was consistent with \u201ccar meets\u201d for drug sales, and that was probable cause. Commonwealth v. Sanders, 2016 Mass. App. LEXIS 164 (Nov. 15, 2016). Plaintiff complained &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24440\">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":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-search","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440","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=24440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24441,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440\/revisions\/24441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}