State v. Predka

How courts have described this case

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• holding that probable cause, not the motivation of the arresting officer, determines whether the stop of a vehicle is valid
• holding that district court properly excluded evidence that it was impossible for nonresident drug dealer to purchase drug tax stamps on a Saturday because before the trip to Iowa dealer should have arranged to acquire stamps before he picked up marijuana
• holding, among other things, that marijuana was not a proper article of commerce subject to protection under the Commerce Clause because it was contraband
• holding, among other things, that marijuana was not a proper article of commerce subject to protection under the Commerce Clause because it was contraband
• holding “probable cause—not the motivation of the arresting officer—determines whether the stop is valid”
• finding probable cause to search the vehicle based in part on the officer’s observation of a screen used with a marijuana pipe

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).