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State v. Bartholomew

Citations

  • 602 N.W.2d 510
  • 258 Neb. 174
  • 1999 Neb. LEXIS 207

How courts have described this case

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

  • declining to consider community caretaking exception as State requested because circumstances of case did not give rise to need to address issue
  • dragging muffler justifies traffic stop and evidence found as a result of that stop is not subject to suppression under the Fourth Amendment.
  • “If an officer has probable cause to stop a violator, the stop is objectively reasonable, and any ulterior motivation on the officer’s part is irrelevant.”
  • traffic violation, no matter how minor, creates probable cause to stop driver of vehicle
  • “If an officer has probable cause to stop a violator, the stop is objectively reasonable, and any ulterior motivation on the officer’s part is irrelevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hendry, Wright, Connolly, Gerrard, Stephan, McCormack, Miller-Lerman

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