PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST FOR DRUG DISTRIBUTION EVEN THOUGH POLICE DID NOT ACTUALLY SEE ANY HAND-TO-HAND TRANSACTION – OR EVEN ANYTHING CLOSE TO ONE
Recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court further fleshed-out the law with respect to probable cause to arrest for street-level drug transactions. Typically, these cases involve the police observing someone passing an object to another person under suspicious circumstances, such as when one car pulls alongside another in a parking lot, and the occupants of the…