Commonwealth v. Johnson

Docket NumberSJC-12483
Decision Date26 March 2019

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  • Commonwealth v. Feliz
    • United States
    • Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
    • December 23, 2020
    ...supra, the defendant could have challenged those specific searches as unconstitutional under art. 14. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Johnson, 481 Mass. 710, 720, 119 N.E.3d 669, cert. denied, ––– U.S. ––––, 140 S. Ct. 247, 205 L.Ed.2d 138 (2019) ; Feliz I, 481 Mass. at 699 n.16, 119 N.E.3d 700.......
  • Commonwealth v. Carrasquillo
    • United States
    • Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
    • February 7, 2022
    ...of privacy, one must perceive or otherwise genuinely believe that the object of the alleged search is private. Commonwealth v. Johnson, 481 Mass. 710, 721, 119 N.E.3d 669, cert. denied, ––– U.S. ––––, 140 S. Ct. 247, 205 L.Ed.2d 138 (2019). See Commonwealth v. Molina, 459 Mass. 819, 830, 94......
  • Commonwealth v. Norman
    • United States
    • Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
    • March 17, 2020
    ...imposed on a defendant as a pretrial condition of release. We are called upon to confront a question not present in Commonwealth v. Johnson, 481 Mass. 710, 119 N.E.3d 669, cert. denied, ––– U.S. ––––, 140 S. Ct. 247, 205 L.Ed.2d 138 (2019). There, we determined that imposition of GPS monito......
  • Commonwealth v. Yusuf
    • United States
    • Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
    • September 10, 2021
    ...occurs when ‘the [g]overnment obtains information by physically intruding on a constitutionally protected area.’ " Commonwealth v. Johnson, 481 Mass. 710, 715, 119 N.E.3d 669, cert. denied, ––– U.S. ––––, 140 S. Ct. 247, 205 L.Ed.2d 138 (2019), quoting Grady v. North Carolina, 575 U.S. 306,......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Search and seizure of electronic devices
    • United States
    • James Publishing Practical Law Books Suppressing Criminal Evidence Fourth amendment searches and seizures
    • April 1, 2022
    ...held that a slight incremental loss of privacy was outweighed by the social benefit of required monitoring. In Commonwealth v. Johnson , 119 N.E.3d 669 (Mass. 2019), the court allowed warrantless information retrieval from a GPS tracking device. The court found the requirement to wear the d......
  • Search and seizure of electronic devices
    • United States
    • James Publishing Practical Law Books Archive Suppressing Criminal Evidence - 2020 Contents
    • July 31, 2020
    ...held that a slight incremental loss of privacy was outweighed by the social beneit of required monitoring. In Commonwealth v. Johnson , 119 N.E.3d 669 (Mass. 2019), the court allowed warrantless information retrieval from a GPS tracking device. The court found the requirement to wear the de......
  • THE ORIGINS AND LEGACY OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT REASONABLENESS-BALANCING MODEL.
    • United States
    • Case Western Reserve Law Review Vol. 71 No. 1, September 2020
    • September 22, 2020
    ...at 714-15. The court also rejected a special needs rationale for the monitoring. See id. at 710 n.17. But cf. Commonwealth v. Johnson, 119 N.E.3d 669, 680-81 (Mass. 2019) (distinguishing Feliz where a probationer requested GPS tracking and had a history of (382.) Commonwealth v. Norman, 142......