{"id":20281,"date":"2016-01-08T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20281"},"modified":"2016-01-08T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:11:50","slug":"ma-while-statute-didnt-authorize-arrest-for-this-misdemeanor-but-common-law-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20281","title":{"rendered":"MA: While statute didn&#8217;t authorize arrest for this misdemeanor, common law might still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe conclude that there is no statutory authority to arrest an individual for operating a motor vehicle with a revoked registration but that, under circumstances not present here, an arrest may be made under the established common law rule pertaining to warrantless arrests for misdemeanors. As to the defendant&#8217;s second argument, we conclude that, even accepting that an excessive show of force was employed by the police in the circumstances presented, the inevitable discovery exception applies.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/docs\/sjc\/reporter-of-decisions\/new-opinions\/14p1108.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Ubilez<\/a>, 2016 Mass. App. LEXIS 4 (Jan. 7, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe conclude that there is no statutory authority to arrest an individual for operating a motor vehicle with a revoked registration but that, under circumstances not present here, an arrest may be made under the established common law rule pertaining &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20281\">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":[50,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20286,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20281\/revisions\/20286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}