Courtney v. Oklahoma Ex Rel. Department of Public Safety

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a suspect’s heavy breathing, heart palpitations, nervous laughter, repeated yawning, and shaky, sweaty hands had shown extreme nervousness
• noting that the trooper’s observation that the defendant’s “nervousness did not dissipate after he was informed he would only be receiving a warning for the traffic violation” was “consistent with extreme nervousness”
• discussing our “broad discretion in admiralty and maritime” cases to “develop th[e] law”
• “Under Oklahoma law, ‘[c]onversion is any act of dominion wrongfully exerted over another’s personal property in denial of or inconsistent with his rights therein.’” (alteration in original) (quoting Welty v. Martinaire of Okla., Inc., 867 P.2d 1273, 1275 (Okla. 1994))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).