{"id":51971,"date":"2022-03-31T07:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51971"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:53:44","slug":"ma-firearms-improperly-secured-found-in-search-of-house-not-forfeitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51971","title":{"rendered":"MA: Firearms &#8220;improperly secured&#8221; found in search of house not forfeitable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Firearms allegedly found \u201cimproperly secured\u201d in defendant\u2019s home during a search are not contraband subject to forfeiture. Commonwealth v. Fleury, 2022 Mass. LEXIS 149 (Mar. 31, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant was stopped for overtinted windows, and, when he got out of the car, loose cash and apparent drugs were in the door pocket. That was plain view. United States v. Walker, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58081 (D.Mass. Mar. 30, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s showing up for an on-the-street gun deal and showing a gun was probable cause. United States v. Ngomba, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58080 (D.Mass. Mar. 30, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer\u2019s 85 paragraph affidavit for search warrant described defendant\u2019s activities, too, and it showed probable cause. United States v. Rech, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57845 (W.D.N.Y. Mar. 29, 2022).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firearms allegedly found \u201cimproperly secured\u201d in defendant\u2019s home during a search are not contraband subject to forfeiture. Commonwealth v. Fleury, 2022 Mass. LEXIS 149 (Mar. 31, 2022).* Defendant was stopped for overtinted windows, and, when he got out of the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51971\">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":[72,51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture","category-plain-view","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51971","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=51971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51973,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51971\/revisions\/51973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}