Commonwealth v. Woodham, J.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that inconsistent answers by occupants or problems with the occupants’ licenses or registration of the vehicle provide grounds for broadening the inquiry
• holding that attenuation existed when, among other considerations, the “officer’s conduct was in good faith” and “not flagrant”
• holding that questions are seizures requiring either some relation to the basis for the custody or an independent source of reasonable suspicion
• holding that an officer may properly expand the scope of an investigation as reasonable suspicion dictates
• holding that a police officer did not have reasonable suspicion to ask questions not reasonably related to the stop, but finding the subsequent consent nevertheless to be voluntary
• holding that a police officer did not have reasonable suspicion to ask questions not reasonably related to the stop, but finding the subsequent consent nevertheless to be voluntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).