Padilla v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the facts that a motorist “had a criminal record and was travelling on an interstate highway . . . are not sufficient to create an objective basis for extending the scope of the traffic stop to a Terry investigative deten- tion”
• informing driver of vehicle that he was free to leave did not convert the stop into a consensual encounter when officer immediately thereafter told driver he wanted to ask him more questions
• informing driver of vehicle that he was free to leave did not convert the stop into a consensual encounter when officer immediately thereafter told driver he wanted to ask him more questions
• “At the habeas corpus hearing, [the district attorney] represented the 22 state’s interest, not [the officers]. [The officer] did not have a personal stake in the outcome of 23 [the] criminal proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).