{"id":61036,"date":"2025-05-13T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61036"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:57:49","slug":"ma-scotus-isnt-getting-ready-to-get-rid-of-community-caretaking-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61036","title":{"rendered":"MA: SCOTUS isn&#8217;t getting ready to get rid of community caretaking function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Because the trial court decided the suppression motion on issues not raised by the parties, the defense gets to argue things he didn\u2019t raise below. The facts here supported the community caretaking function, and the court rejects his suggestion that SCOTUS is ready to jettison it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2025\/05\/13\/l24P0298.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Page<\/a>, 2025 Mass. App. LEXIS 39 (May 13, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The record supports the trial court\u2019s crediting of the officer\u2019s testimony that defendant was speeding and that supported the stop. State v. Pullom, 2025 Ohio App. LEXIS 1672 (3d Dist. May 12, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s patdown for weapons was supported by the record. State v. Pullom, 2025 Ohio App. LEXIS 1668 (3d Dist. May 12, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was justified. \u201cThe totality of the circumstances known to the officer at the time of the arrest would warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that Mr. Buckingham had been driving under the influence of alcohol.\u201d State v. Appellant, 2025-Ohio-1688 (9th Dist. May 12, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the trial court decided the suppression motion on issues not raised by the parties, the defense gets to argue things he didn\u2019t raise below. The facts here supported the community caretaking function, and the court rejects his suggestion that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61036\">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":[74,22,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-protective-sweep","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61036","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=61036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61037,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61036\/revisions\/61037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}