Odor of drugs coming from a locked car at a club in Louisiana that was blocked in by police cars, and the driver was not around to produce the keys. The car was not \u201creadily mobile\u201d for the automobile exception. State v. Millet, 2010 La. App. LEXIS 577 (La. App. 5th Cir. April 27, 2010).<\/p>\n
Defendant was validly arrested for being a resident of Massachusetts without a valid license, having a New Brunswick license instead, but living here. His pickup truck was towed and inventoried, and the only issue was the validity of the arrest for driving without a license. If the arrest was valid, so was the search. Commonwealth v. Chown, 76 Mass. App. Ct. 684, 925 N.E.2d 562 (2010),* revd Commonwealth v. Chown<\/a>, 2011 Mass. LEXIS 349 (May 20, 2011) (here<\/a>).*<\/p>\n In a \u00a7 1983 trial over consent to search, the trial court properly put the burden of proof on the defendants to prove that consent was voluntary. Tirreno v. Mott, 375 Fed. Appx. 140 (2d Cir. 2010) (unpublished).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" b2evALnk.b2WPAutP Continue reading