Commonwealth v. Russo

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “officers are entitled to draw reasonable inferences from the[ ] facts in light of their knowledge of the area and their prior experience____”
• holding that officers may not search private vehicles without consent or probable cause at traffic checkpoints which are removed from the border and its functional equivalents
• holding that officers may not search private vehicles without consent or probable cause at traffic checkpoints which are removed from the border and its functional equivalents
• holding Fourth Amendment violated if seizure occurred and force used to effect the seizure was unreasonable
• explaining that suspects’ statements were “central to ... consideration of whether a reasonable officer could have believed that the Plaintiffs had” committed a crime
• noting that fixed checkpoints at which drivers “can see visible signs of the officers’ authority” are less intrusive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).