Jones v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[a] traffic stop for defective equipment must be premised upon a defect in equipment that is required under West Virginia law”
• holding that a stop based on a mistake of law was not valid where officer incorrectly believed a broken side mirror violated the law
• pertinent inquiry is whether the equipment defect renders the vehicle unsafe or constitutes “[a] violation of state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).