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'Online' Advanced Search and Seizure Concepts

2024-10-17
ONLINE with convenient ZOOM Platform

Instructor: SJC Judge Hon. Elspeth B. Cypher (ret).

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From 9:00am to 3:00pm
Registration: 9:00am

Live ‘online’ with ZOOM Format

Thursday: October 17, 2024

 

Instructor: SJC Judge Hon. Elspeth B. Cypher (ret).

Hon. Elspeth B. Cypher (ret.)  served as an Associate Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 2017 until January 2024. She served on the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 2000 to 2017. She received a B.A. from Emerson College in 1980 and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1986, where she served on the Suffolk University Law Review.  She worked in a small general practice and as prosecutor. She has extensive teaching experience, most recently as the Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School.  She is a frequent panelist for the National Cybercrime Conference.  She is the current author of the Massachusetts Practice Series, Criminal Practice and Procedure, Volumes 30, 30A, and 30B. 

 

The seminar will run from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

The cost for this seminar will be $225.00 per person.

Learn in detail the foundation of the law of search and seizure in Massachusetts.

This class will cover the relevant statutes, case law, and state and federal constitutional law. 

We will examine a “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the digital age.

Applications for Search Warrants

Probable Cause, Particularity, Nexis, Temporal limits

Execution of the warrant

The Return and Inventory                                            

The Exclusionary Rule

Curtilage

Controlled Buys

Use of informants

“Franks” hearings

Plain View

Consent

Exigency

Community Caretaking

Routine traffic stops

The automobile exception

Pedestrian stops

Pretextual stops and profiling

Administrative searches

Law of Arrest

Arrest in a dwelling

Search incident to Arrest

Booking Room and Inventory Searches, Protective Sweeps

Searches of digital devices

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» Offline registration: pheagney@policelegacy.com or call 508-989-9848
» Cost: $225 USD per official.