{"id":7680,"date":"2012-10-25T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T11:15:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T11:15:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7680","title":{"rendered":"MA: Confirmed CI statement supported inference drugs in house"},"content":{"rendered":"

Massachusetts still applies Aguilar-Spinneli, and it was satisfied here. The issuing magistrate had probable cause to issue the search warrant for defendants\u2019 house where they left the house to go to a drug deal. The CI also described a drug operation in the house. Commonwealth v. Mendes<\/a>, 463 Mass. 353, 974 N.E.2d 606 (2012):<\/p>\n

The affidavit in this case informed the magistrate that the police separately observed each defendant leaving the shared residence and traveling directly to a prearranged location to sell cocaine to CSB. These observations, when considered along with CSA’s detailed description of the drug distribution enterprise operating from the defendants’ residence and CSB’s corroborating information regarding defendants’ modus operandi of delivering the drugs to prearranged locations near that residence, readily establish that this is not a case where the magistrate’s probable cause determination was simply inferred from “the fact that the defendant lives there.” Contrast Commonwealth v. Pina, 453 Mass. 438, 441, 902 N.E.2d 917 (2009). The two “controlled buys” and the particularized information of two credible informants provided the magistrate with a substantial basis for finding probable cause to believe that a search of the defendants’ residence would uncover evidence of illegal drug distribution. See Commonwealth v. Escalera, supra at 644. The search warrant was constitutionally valid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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