St. Fleur v. State

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that dog-sniff did not unlawfully prolong traffic stop because “while the written warning was still being completed, the second officer initiated the free-air sniff with the drug dog”
• free air sniff within five minutes of initial stop did not unreasonably prolong the stop
• brief pat-down search yielded no weapons or contraband, and officer had independent authority to search defendant’s vehicle
• “In this process [of writing a warning], the officers checked [the driver’s] identity with a dispatcher.”
• “officers did not exploit the pat-down as a means for discovering the [contraband]”
• “In this process [of writing a warning], the officers checked [the driver’s

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).