Marchionni v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the court’s holding that routine questions about travel plans ordinarily falling within the mission of a traffic stop “does not mean. . . that officers have a free pass to ask travel-plan questions until they are subjectively satisfied with the answers”
• “[A]n officer may ask questions unrelated to the stop … if doing so does not prolong the traffic stop.”
• “[N]o one disputes that an officer may ask questions unrelated to the stop[] . . . if doing so does not prolong the traffic stop.”
• relevant issue “is whether Trooper Chapman reasonably believed that he saw a traffic violation, not whether Cole actually violated the statute”
• because officer developed reasonable suspicion fewer than nine minutes into the stop, he had a lawful basis for prolonging the stop to conduct a dog sniff
• totality of circumstances including extreme nervousness, dubious travel plans, a newly registered and insured vehicle, and inconsistent statements supported belief that defendant was engaged in criminal activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).