Byrom v. Epps

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that officers unlawfully prolonged stop and emphasizing that officer asked for registration “but notably not [a driver’s] license — necessary to write a ticket”
• holding that a traffic stop was unlawful because the of- ficer spent most of it asking questions about heroin traffick- ing
• holding that Rodriguez abrogates prior Circuit rule regarding duration of traffic stops
• concluding that it is not a reasonableness test but whether the unrelated inquiry adds time to the stop at all, and finding that asking a few questions about drugs prolonged the stop
• concluding that it is not a reasonableness test but whether the unrelated inquiry adds time to the stop at all, and finding that asking a few questions about drugs prolonged the stop
• holding that an officer “‘detour[ed] from th[e] mission’ of the stop” by asking the driver narcotics-related questions “from the moment that [the officer] first approached the [car]” (quoting Rodriguez, 575 U.S. at 356)

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