COMMONWEALTH v. DAVEIGA

SJC-13147.

489 Mass. 342 (2022)

COMMONWEALTH v. ERICKSON DAVEIGA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 24, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan E. Taylor for the defendant.

Benjamin Shorey , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Rebecca Kiley , Committee for Public Counsel Services, Jessie J. Rossman , Matthew R. Segal , Katharine Naples-Mitchell , Chauncey B. Wood, & Radha Natarajan, for Committee for Public Counsel Services & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


We consider in this case whether police may conduct a traffic stop on the basis of a traffic violation after having resolved the violation at a prior encounter, and then having allowed the vehicle to leave, and where no other traffic violation took place before the stop. While on routine patrol...

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