NICHOLSON, CHRISTOPHER A. v. NICHOLSON, DONNA M.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an officer “impermissibly extended [a traffic] stop” by asking the driver about his criminal history
• suggesting that an officer may “ask[] questions” to “test[] a driver’s candor about his authority to operate a vehicle”
• confirming that Rodriguez calls for fact-sensitive inquiry as to whether ordinarily per- missible questions actually advance a stop’s mission when they measura- bly prolong a stop
• affirming suppression of evidence obtained by pro- longing traffic stop by questioning driver about his criminal history
• finding that twenty seconds of un- related questioning prolonged the stop
• affirming the suppression of evidence and concluding that an officer impermissibly extended a twenty-three minute traffic stop to ask about the driver’s criminal history rather than 10 complete the traffic mission

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