· 2/2/2005
United States v. Efrain Becerra-Garcia
Citations
- 397 F.3d 1167
- 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 1643
- 2005 WL 237647
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding “Indian Civil Rights Act ... imposed an ‘identical limitation’ on tribal government conduct as the Fourth Amendment.”
- rejecting that a traffic stop “is automatically unreasonable if the officers lacked authority to conduct the seizure”
- stating that the Fourth Amendment “does not directly apply to the conduct of tribal governments”
- holding “the reasonableness of a seizure depends exclusively on federal law” and noting “the well-established proposition that an arrest in violation of state law may still be constitutionally reasonable”
- noting that under the Fourth Amendment, “investigative traffic stops” require “only reasonable suspicion”
- noting that under the Fourth Amendment, “investigative traffic stops” require “only reasonable suspicion”
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Judges: Meskill, Trott, McKeown
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