{"id":43762,"date":"2020-05-15T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43762"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:04:18","slug":"ma-def-gets-limited-discovery-into-cis-reliability-otherwise-not-provided-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43762","title":{"rendered":"MA: Def gets limited discovery into CI&#8217;s reliability otherwise not provided by state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Massachusetts court sees no need to intervene yet in a trial court\u2019s limited discovery order for the CI\u2019s reliability which was wanting in the affidavit. \u201cIf the Commonwealth feels that any document would reveal the informant&#8217;s identity, it can seek a protective order, move for reconsideration, request permission to make redactions, or, as the defendant suggested at oral argument, submit documents for in camera review. Where the Commonwealth has these alternative means of protecting the confidential informant&#8217;s identity, it has not been placed in any untenable position requiring extraordinary relief.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2020\/05\/15\/j12795.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Rodriguez<\/a>, 2020 Mass. LEXIS 245 (May 15, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DTF officers get qualified immunity for a drug raid two days after a controlled buy at plaintiff\u2019s house. They do not yet get immunity for excessive force from shooting plaintiff\u2019s dog because of questions of fact. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/20a0271n-06.pdf\">Bullock v. City of Detroit<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 15495 (6th Cir. May 14, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts court sees no need to intervene yet in a trial court\u2019s limited discovery order for the CI\u2019s reliability which was wanting in the affidavit. \u201cIf the Commonwealth feels that any document would reveal the informant&#8217;s identity, it can seek &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43762\">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":[44,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43762","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=43762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43764,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43762\/revisions\/43764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}