United States v. Gordon Earl Watts

How courts have described this case

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• holding that once police officers legally possessed firearms, they were entitled to record their serial numbers
• affirming the denial of a motion to suppress when the police officers checked the registration of the firearms in their lawful possession “via the police radio” to determine whether they were stolen
• “The Fourth Amendment requires that a search not continue longer than necessary to effectuate the purposes of an investigative stop.”
• “The Fourth Amendment requires that a search not continue longer than necessary to effectuate the purposes of an investigative stop.”
• police officers had reasonable suspicion to stop a van in a residential area after a citizen reported that men were moving items, including long guns, from his neighbor's apartment into the van
• \The mere fact that the officers' original ground for stopping [defendants] dissipated does not prevent them from continuing their investigative stop based on new facts creating a reasonable articulable suspicion of criminal activity.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).