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Commonwealth v. Campbell

Citations

  • 862 A.2d 659
  • 2004 Pa. Super. 440
  • 2004 Pa. Super. LEXIS 4335

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that asking even a passenger in a lawfully-stopped vehicle for identification does not violate the Fourth Amendment
  • holding that during a routine traffic stop the police may request the driver exit the vehicle as a matter of course
  • “One’s name is subject to repeated disclosure every day, and we find identifying oneself to be a minimal intrusion.”
  • “A forcible stop of a motor vehicle by a police officer constitutes a seizure of a driver and the occupants; this seizure triggers the protections of the Fourth Amendment.”
  • “police can require both the driver and the passengers in the vehicle to identify themselves during a routine traffic stop regardless of whether there is reasonable suspicion that the passengers are engaged in criminal activity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Elliott, Joyce, Tamilia

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