State v. Leino

How courts have described this case

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• during a traffic stop, questioning about unrelated matters “is not unlawful if it occurs while an officer is lawfully and expeditiously conducting the traffic stop”
• an officer may not inquire about unrelated matters as an alternative to going forward with processing a traffic infraction
• where officer, in course of traffic stop, requested a “records check” (to verify identification
• Article I, section 9, is “not implicated if an inquiry unrelated to a traffic stop occurs during a routine stop but does not delay it, that is, if it occurs during an ‘unavoidable lull’ in the investigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).