United States v. Donald G. Moore

How courts have described this case

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• noting that police may stop vehicle when they have probable cause to believe driver committed traffic violation, even when passenger is inside
• finding argument waived after objector failed to raise it before the magistrate judge
• “Once the officers (legally) stopped the cab, Moore, as a passenger in the vehicle, became subject to the officers’ custody and control ‘until their safety could be assured.’ ”
• “Once the officers (legally) stopped the cab, Moore, as a passenger in the vehicle, became subject to the officers’ custody and control ‘until their safety could be assured.’ ”
• consensual encounters between individual and officer do not trigger Fourth Amendment scrutiny
• “[I]ncident to his status as a passenger of a vehicle involved in a traffic stop, Moore could be questioned by the officers without their questions being deemed a ‘seizure’ for Fourth Amendment purposes . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).