United States v. Derrick L. Foster

How courts have described this case

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• deciding that handcuffing a suspect during a traffic stop was reasonable given the potential threat to the investigating officer’s safety
• holding that pat-down did not end the officer’s reasonable suspicion of the defendant, and that to have sent him on his way, without brief further questioning, would have been unreasonable, inept police work
• holding that “when the officers detected the smell of marijuana coming from Foster’s vehicle, this provided them with probable cause to search the vehicle without a search warrant” which “therefore turned a lawful Terry stop into a lawful search”
• explaining that officers had probable cause for a warrantless search when they smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle
• stating that Rule 613(b) impeachment is permissible “even when the impeaching material involves ‘other acts’ of the defendant”
• observing that a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).