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Appeals court hears dispute over whether troopers conducted a proper inventory search
Summary
In Commonwealth v. Burgos the panel considered whether state troopers complied with State Police inventory policy when they searched a duffel bag in a stopped vehicle and whether that failure required suppression of evidence.
Attorney Haley Jacobson, representing Giovanni Burgos, told the panel that Massachusetts State Police policy requires a documented inventory of a towed vehicle and its contents and that the record shows no itemized list or testimony that troopers inventoried the interior, glove compartment and trunk.
"There is zero evidence that the troopers itemized the contents of the vehicle or noted its condition," Jacobson said, arguing…
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