{"id":58844,"date":"2024-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58844"},"modified":"2024-09-08T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T15:58:32","slug":"ma-investigative-equal-protection-claim-can-be-enforced-by-das-discovery-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58844","title":{"rendered":"MA: Investigative equal protection claim can be enforced by DA&#8217;s discovery failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant raised an equal protection claim about discovery of ShapChat search warrants. Defense counsel stated that an informal survey of defense lawyers handling about 1\/4th of the cases in Suffolk County showed that 85% of the warrants were against black defendants and 15% against Hispanics. The trial court granted further discovery under state law and the DA refused. The case was dismissed as a discovery sanction. On appeal, the judgment is affirmed. \u201cWe reject the Commonwealth&#8217;s view of what types of police investigatory practices are subject to the revised Long equal protection framework. The Long standard applies to alleged discriminatory policing in the investigatory phase of a case. See Robinson-Van Rader, 492 Mass. at 20-21 (\u2018street-level\u2019 investigations). It encompasses a claim that the police monitored social media accounts based on the target&#8217;s race or membership in another protected class.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/doc\/commonwealth-v-dilworth-sjc-13547\/download\">Commonwealth v. Dilworth<\/a>, 2024 Mass. LEXIS 348 (Sep. 6, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio reiterates that a violation of a regulation or statute is not reason for applying the exclusionary rule. It is limited to constitutional violations. State v. Sheckles, 2024-Ohio-3339 (Sept. 6, 2024).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ShotSpotter alert contributed to reasonable suspicion. United States v. Muhammad, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 158660 (E.D. Cal. Sep. 3, 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant raised an equal protection claim about discovery of ShapChat search warrants. Defense counsel stated that an informal survey of defense lawyers handling about 1\/4th of the cases in Suffolk County showed that 85% of the warrants were against black &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58844\">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":[14,114,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionary-rule","category-privileges","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844","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=58844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58845,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58844\/revisions\/58845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}