Bodiford v. the State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that officer failed to act with reasonable diligence and unreasonably prolonged the traffic stop, where the officer “knowingly avoid[ed] communication with dispatch after requesting a license check”
• explaining that “the free air sniff occurred as a result of [officer’s] decision to expand the traffic stop beyond its original purpose and it therefore cannot serve as a basis for [defendant’s] continued detention”
• if license check showed no problems and no outstanding warrants, the traffic stop would be concluded and defendant would be free to go
• “On a motion to suppress contraband discovered during a traffic stop, the State bears the burden of proving that the [stop] of the car was lawful.”
• officer waited until after he had completed all other aspects of investigation before initiating check of appellant’s driver’s license and then refused to have further contact with dispatch
• officer waited until after he had completed all other aspects of investigation before initiating check of appellant’s driver’s license 5 and then refused to have further contact with dispatch

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).