KHAWAJA OF MANASSAS, INC. v. RACETRAC PETROLEUM, INC.

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• concluding that, where circumstances of search “justified] heightened precautions for the officers’ own safety[,] . . . the officers could properly have entered the passenger compartment, including the glove compartment, to retrieve the registration themselves”
• “Inability to produce a license or a registration reasonably gives rise to a suspicion of other offenses, such as automobile theft . . .”
• failure to produce license, an offense in itself, reasonably gave rise to suspicion of other offenses
• “Courts cannot be oblivious to the recent escalation in the numbers of incidents reported wherein police officers have been killed or wounded while performing routine traffic functions.”
• officers could search vehicle for weapons prior to allowing defendant to reenter vehicle to get registration, or officers could enter vehicle and retrieve registration from glove compartment
• before allowing defendant to reenter car to obtain registration, officers could properly effect Terry-type search of areas of car that would be readily accessible to defendant on reentering

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).