Heien v. North Carolina

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a mistake of law can nonetheless give rise to the reasonable suspicion necessary to uphold [a] seizure under; the Fourth Amendment”
• holding that an officer's mistake of law was reasonable if the statute contained at least some ambiguity and the issue has not been resolved by a State's appellate court
• concluding that police officer’s mistaken belief that ambiguous vehicle code required more than one functional brake light was objectively reasonable
• holding that, under Fourth Amendment, reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop can rest on a reasonable mistake of law
• holding that an officer’s mistake of law was objectively reasonable because, in part, North Carolina appellate courts had not previously interpreted the state provision
• holding that a reasonable mistake of law can \give rise to the reasonable suspicion necessary to uphold [a] seizure under the Fourth Amendment\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).