Colorado v. Bannister

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the automobile exception “exists when an automobile or other vehicle is stopped and the police have probable cause to believe it contains evidence of a crime”
• stating that after probable cause exists at a traffic stop the police may conduct a warrantless search of the automobile for evidence of a crime
• noting that even after Twombly, the court “remain[s] obligated to construe a pro se complaint liberally”
• upholding the seizure of items fitting the description of recently stolen property under the plain-view exception
• stopping an automobile and detaining its occupants constitutes a seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment
• stressing the fact that the defendant was pulled over which would indicate “ ‘to a reasonable person that he was not at liberty to ignore the police presence and go about his business’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).