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Recent updates:

• Update: May 2025

  Dear Subscriber:

  Thank you for choosing to stay current with this 2025 edition of the Massachusetts Arrest, Search, and Seizure Citator. Inside, you will find new cases summarized, in the areas of both warrantless searches and searches conducted pursuant to warrants—including these:

  • Cases with warrants; particularity of warrant. A 2024 case held that a search warrant for a controlled substance that is alleged to be illegally possessed or distributed must name the substance for which police have probable cause to search.

  • Cases with warrants; child pornography. A 2024 case held that where a search warrant is based on a claim that an image is child pornography, probable cause for a warrant requires that (1) the issuing magistrate independently view the image to determine if it qualifies as child pornography; (2) there is a sufficiently detailed description of the image for the magistrate to determine that it constitutes child pornography; or (3) there is other sufficient evidence contained in the affidavit to corroborate that the image constitutes child pornography.

  • Warrantless cases. A 2024 case held that a person lacks a legitimate expectation of privacy in information that is voluntarily conveyed to third parties and that is collected for legitimate business purposes.

  • Warrantless cases; emergency aid doctrine. A 2024 case held that an entry into a home cannot be justified under the community caretaking doctrine. The emergency aid exception to the warrant requirement is available where (1) there is an objectively reasonable ground to believe an emergency exists based on the circumstances existing at the time; and (2) the conduct following the entry is reasonable.

  We at MCLE trust that you will find this new material useful in your criminal law practice and valuable in keeping your law library current.

  Cordially,

  MCLE Press

Table of Contents

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Summary of Case Law

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Digest of Cases with Warrants

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Digest of Warrantless Cases

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