Theopholis Brinson v. State of Florida

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• holding that probable cause determinations “turn on what the officer knew at the time he made the stop.”
• holding that probable cause determinations “turn on what the officer knew at the time he made the stop.”
• holding that traffic stop cases must be evaluated by undertaking an objective assessment of an officer's actions in light of the facts and circumstances then known to him to determine whether they were reasonable
• holding that Chinese government’s threat to impose a fine 9 equivalent to twenty times petitioner’s income did not constitute past persecution because 10 threat was not actually fulfilled
• discussing the standard for analyzing claims of allegedly pretextual traffic stops under the “would” test
• defining probable cause as “reasonable grounds for belief, supported by less than prima facie proof but more than a mere suspicion”

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