United States v. Banuelos-Romero

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an officer had an \objective basis for suspecting legal wrongdoing\ where evidence suggested that a vehicle had been modified to allow access to a hidden compartment
• noting that “reasonable belief” coupled with evidence of wrongdoing “create[s] sufficient probable cause” (quotation omitted)
• noting that in a vehicle stop on a highway the vehicle’s potential mobility supplies the exi- gency required to trigger the automobile exception
• noting that “reasonable belief” coupled with evidence of wrongdoing “create[s] sufficient probable cause” (quotation omitted)
• explaining that “if probable cause existed, Appellant’s consent was not required for Trooper Dollar to search”
• “We have previously held that evidence of a non-standard hidden compartment supports probable cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).