City of St. Paul v. Vaughn

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that police reasonably attempted to stop automobile even though “they did so on the basis of information that the driver’s license of the person they mistakenly believed to be operating the automobile was suspended”
• officer had run a license check one month earlier showing suspected driver’s license was suspended
• stop justified when after pursuit suspect fled with what appeared to be a .45 caliber automatic pistol in hand
• stop lawful even though officers mistakenly believed they were stopping defendant’s brother, whom they knew to be under driver’s license suspension
• license check within past month was sufficient to sustain stop
• “The issue is not abandonment in the strict property-right sense, but whether the person prejudiced by the search had voluntarily discarded, left behind, or otherwise relinquished his [privacy] interest in the property in question . . . .” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).