State of Indiana v. Darrell L. Keck

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• holding that “[i]f an officer observes a driver commit a traffic violation, he has probable cause—and thus also the lesser included reasonable suspicion—to stop that driver”
• “If an officer observes a driver commit a traffic violation, he has probable cause—and thus also the lesser included reasonable suspicion—to stop that driver.”
• “If an officer observes a driver commit a traffic violation, he has probable cause—and thus also the lesser included reasonable suspicion [required for a Terry stop]—to stop that driver.”
• “But if the officer stops a driver based on the officer’s mistaken belief that the observed conduct constituted an infraction, the officer’s suspicion is no longer reasonable, and the stop is therefore unsupported and impermissible.”
• “If an officer observes a driver commit a traffic violation, he has probable cause - and thus also the lesser included 9 Bell asserts Officer Gough was on a “fishing expedition” in order to “target[] citizens in bad neighborhoods.” (Appellant’s Br. at 25.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).