United States of America,plaintiff-Appellee v. Armando Lopez-Soto

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that officer had no reasonable suspicion for traffic stop where driver \simply was not\ violating any law
• concluding that the stop was unconstitutional because the officer was mistaken about whether a registration sticker was required on the rear window of the vehicle
• concluding that a mistake of law “cannot justify the stop under the Fourth Amendment”
• determining that reasonable suspicion is the appropriate standard for a traffic stop based on a readily observed traffic violation
• holding that only reasonable suspicion is required for a traffic stop
• holding that allowing the good faith exception for officer’s mistakes of law “would defeat the purpose of the exclusionary rule, for it would remove the incentive for police to make certain that they properly understand the law that they are entrusted to enforce and obey.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).