United States v. Canipe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an officer does not violate the Fourth Amendment when he stops a vehicle for a traffic violation, even though the officer’s subjective purpose for making the stop was his suspicion that another crime had been committed
• holding that because the officer “possessed probable cause to believe that a traffic violation occurred when he observed [the defendant] not wearing a seatbelt, [the officer’s] motivation for making the stop (suspicion of unlawful possession of a firearm
• noting that defendant’s prior experience with police and criminal justice system rendered it unlikely his statement of consent was mere acquiescence to authority
• determining that a request to look for \'anything' in [a] vehicle that might be unlawful or about which [the officer] needed to know\ was a request for general consent to search
• determining that a request to look for \ 'any thing' in [a] vehicle that might be unlawful or about which [the officer] needed to know\ was a request for general consent to search
• finding no Fourth Amendment violation where an officer asked for, and received, consent to search a vehicle after issuing a traffic citation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).