State of Tennessee v. Wayne Donaldson

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• holding that “a lawful traffic stop authorizes officers, as a matter of course, to require drivers to exit their vehicles”
• stating that an automobile stop is constitutionally permissible when an officer has reasonable suspicion or probable cause to believe a traffic violation has occurred regardless of the officer’s “ulterior motive[s]” for the stop
• “[I]n the context of traffic stops, the protections afforded by article I, section 7 of the Tennessee Constitution [are] coextensive with the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment.”
• “[I]n the context of traffic stops, the protections afforded by article I, section 7 of the Tennessee Constitution [are] coextensive with the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment as defined in [Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).