MOTOR VEHICLE STOPS

Date & Time: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Cost: $65 (Program Only)/$89 (Program and Book)
Location: Social Law Library, John Adams Courthouse

CPCS approved for 2.0 hours of Post-Conviction, Criminal Trial, Juvenile Delinquency panels.

 

[A]nalysis of events in motor vehicle stops is not only fact intensive and time dependent . . . but also interconnected and dynamic: observations made,and events occurring, during the stop often lead to heightened suspicion (justifying further inquiry), or to probable cause, or to plain-view seizures. . . .

Commonwealth v. Ciaramitaro, 51 Mass. App. Ct. 638, 642, 747 N.E.2d 1253, review denied, 434 Mass. 1107 (2001).

SPEAKERS:

James F. Comerford, Esq., Quincy District Court
Author, Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Stops Benchbook

District Court Judge Cathleen E. Campbell
Editorial Committee, Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Stops Benchbook

Assistant District Attorney Craig Kowalski
Norfolk County District Attorney

District Court Judge Kevin J. O’Dea
Editorial Committee, Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Stops Benchbook

Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan
Editorial Committee, Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Stops Benchbook

Defense Attorney Sarah Loraine Westra
Law Office of Jeffrey K. Clifford, Quincy












PROGRAM:

The Author and Members of the Judicial Editorial Committee of the Flaschner Judicial Institute’s recently published Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Stops Benchbook (2016) will join an experienced prosecutor and defense attorney to provide a survey of substantive law as well as probe several specific areas that frequently arise in court proceedings. For instance, the following is a partial list of substantive issues that will be explained:

• Segment #1: Expectation of Privacy, Stop/Activation of Lights; Canine Sniff Community Caretaking, Emergency

• Segment #2: Extraterritorial Stop/Arrest, Stop v. Arrest, Approach and Contact, Exit Order, Threshold Inquiry, Interior Protective Search

• Segment #3: Consent, Warrants, Warrantless Search, Search Incident to arrest, Inventory Search

Interspersed between these segments, the panel will examine select other issues, such as

• Marijuana Cases
• Taking Cases up on Appeal on New Theories
• Inferences and Burden of Proof
• Prosecutor and Defense Perspective, Practice Tips, and Pointers


I want to register for the program ONLY: $65


I want to register for the program AND book: $89

The bundled price for both the CLE and the Flaschner Institute’s newly released Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Stops Benchbook is $89. Thus, with the CLE the price of the book is only $24.99, which represents a $25 discount from its retail price of $49.99.

NOTE TO JUDGES: This program is for lawyers. To register for the Flaschner Institute's MV Stops program, please contact the institute directly.

Online registration is encouraged. For questions on group discounts, special billing, program content, out-of-state CLE credits, and general CLE information call Andrew Hyland at 617-226-1361. Space is limited. Registrations accepted in order of receipt. Registration fees are non-refundable. Registrants for this program acknowledge that during the program their photographic or videographic images may be incidentally taken; registrants agree that the submission of their registrations for this program constitutes their written consent to the Social Law Library’s use of any such image in print and online materials solely for promotion of the Library’s noncommercial CLE seminars and other educational events and activities.