United States v. Calvin Watson

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that officers were “entitled for their own protection to approach” suspect with guns pointed
• upholding seizure where subjective basis for stop unrelated to the stop that rear license plate was not illuminated as required by law
• irrelevant that officers used state-law traffic violation as pretext after anonymous tip about illegal guns in car
• irrelevant that officers used state-law traffic violation as pretext after anonymous tip about illegal guns in car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).