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· 1/15/1986

Howard J. Brierley, and V-1 Oil Company v. F.J. Schoenfeld, Jr.

Citations

  • 781 F.2d 838
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 21340

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the officer, experienced in truck enforcement, had reasonable suspicion that the truck was overweight “based upon his observation of the squatty rear-axle tires”
  • observing as a factor in the totality of the circumstances the officer’s experience that “about fifty percent of the trucks he had stopped with ‘squatty tires were overweight” under Utah law
  • “The experience of the officer is a factor to be carefully considered in determining whether an investigatory stop is justified.”

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Judges: Barrett, Mewilliams, Anderson

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