A Massachusetts court, in the case of Duff v. Pouliot,2018 Mass. App. Div. 42, 2018 Mass. App. Div. LEXIS 10 (Mass. Dist. Ct. App. Div. 2018), has reaffirmed and applied a state supreme court precedent,Meikle v. Nurse,49 N.E.3d 210 (...
The Appeals Court of Massachusetts held that the police could search a closed suitcase in a common closet of a bedroom when given permission to do so by the defendant's coinhabitant. Commonwealth v. Hernandez,93 Mass. App. Ct. 172, 2018 Mass. App. LEXIS 48 (Mass. App. Ct. 2018). This ruling was based on traditional...