Supreme Court· 3/27/1979

Delaware v. Prouse

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440 U.S. 648
99 S. Ct. 1391
59 L. Ed. 2d 660
1979 U.S. LEXIS 80

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Delaware v. Prouse

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Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that police may not stop motorists without any reasonable suspicion to suspect crime or illegal activity to check their driver's license and auto registration.[1] [2]

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↑ Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648 (1979).
↑ Lively, DE; Weaver, RL (2006). Contemporary Supreme Court Cases: Landmark Decisions Since Roe V. Wade. US: Greenwood Publishing Group.

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recognizing that observed violations provide the “quantum of individualized suspicion” necessary to ensure that police discretion is sufficiently constrained
holding that, absent reasonable suspicion, \detaining the driver in order to check his driver's license\ is a Fourth Amendment violation
holding that random spot checks were not narrowly tailored to the purpose of ensuring an adequate amount of insurance coverage
holding that randomly seizing an automobile to check for driver’s license and registration without any suspicion of wrongdoing is unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment
concluding that the Fourth Amendment prevented police officers from conducting roving patrol stops of vehicles to cheek license and registration information unless they possessed reasonable, articulable suspicion
holding that an officer may stop a vehicle if the vehicle or occupant is subject to seizure for violation of the law

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Judges: Blackmun, Brennan, Burger, Marshall, Powell, Rehnquist, Stewart, White

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