United States v. Christian, Morris

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's \actual motives for conducting [a] search [are] not relevant as long as his actions [are] objectively reasonable\
• holding that an officer’s “actual motives for conducting [a] search [are] not relevant as long as his actions [are] objectively reasonable”
• holding that an officer's “actual motives for conducting [a] search [are] not relevant as long as his actions [are] objectively reasonable”
• noting that officers “could reasonably be suspicious” of someone who, upon seeing police, “immediately throws something into a car” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding Long search permissible even though the suspect’s car doors were closed and locked
• agreeing with the district court that reasonable suspicion exists when someone “throws something into a car” immediately upon seeing an officer in “an area notorious for drug selling and stolen property”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).