Online ZOOM LIVE class; Search and Seizure Training for the Massachusetts Police Officer
2025-09-12
ONLINE WITH ZOOM FORMAT
Instructor: Hon. Elspeth B. Cypher (ret).
From 9:00am to 3:00pm
Registration: 9:00am
Instructor: 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 online seminar will be $200.00 per person.
Learn in detail the foundation of the law of Search and Seizure in Massachusetts. This course 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.
Warrants
Applications for Search Warrants
Probable Cause, Particularity, Nexis, Temporal limits
Execution of the warrant
The Return and Inventory
Curtilage
Controlled Buys
Use of Informants
“Franks” hearings
Searches of digital devices, including cell phones, dashcams, license plate readers, pole cameras, etc.
Warrantless
Plain View
Consent
Exigency & Community Caretaking
Routine traffic stops
The automobile exception
Pedestrian stops
Pretextual stops and profiling
Administrative searches
Stop & Frisk
Law of Arrest
Arrest in a dwelling
Search incident to Arrest
Booking Room and Inventory Searches, Protective Sweeps
Register Now» Offline registration: pheagney@policelegacy.com or call 508-989-9848
» Cost: $200 USD per official.