United States of America, -Appellee v. William G. West

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the scent of air freshener is a proper factor in a reasonable suspicion analysis
• holding that a search of the trunk was within the scope of consent to “look in the vehicle”
• concluding that probable cause existed from a combination of “the smell of drugs,” the defendant’s criminal record, and his extreme nervousness
• noting that it was unnecessary to decide when the defendant revoked consent because the officer had earlier established probable cause
• stating that “questions about travel plans are routine and ‘may be asked as a matter of course without exceeding the proper scope of a traffic stop’ ”
• holding that leaning on car door did not make encounter nonconsensual

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).