Litchford v. Michalski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that consent was not voluntary when ‘only moments’ elapsed between illegal detention and seizure
• recognizing that \a defendant's . . . failure to pull over promptly in response to a trooper's flashing lights [can be] an objective indication of something more serious than a minor traffic infraction.\
• recognizing that “a defendant’s . . . failure to pull over promptly in response to a trooper’s flashing lights [can be] an objective indication of something more serious than a minor traffic infraction.”
• noting that “most citizens” exhibit some signs of nervousness when confronted by officers asking potentially incriminating questions
• finding that the officer’s suspicion that defendant was intoxicated became irrelevant when he did not perform any sobriety tests on defendant
• concluding detention of defendant after a lawful stop, where Sergeant Mangelson responded as back-up, was illegal because the defendant was detained beyond the time necessary to issue the traffic citation upon which the stop was premised

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).