State ex rel. Comfort v. Mason

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that without any evidence to the contrary, it is reasonable to infer that the driver of a vehicle is also its registered owner
• holding that “the officer’s subsequent check of associated motor vehicle licenses and records” was reasonable because “the state is the very body that issues, controls, and regulates such licenses and records” (quotation omitted)
• visual inspection of license plate mounted on moving car in public view, as well as random computer check of license, was not a search
• \It was reasonable for the officer to infer that the driver was the owner of the vehicle. . . . Such an inference gave rise to a reasonable suspicion that the driver was committing a violation of [the law].\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).