United States v. James Evans

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the officer impermissibly extended the stop by running ex-felon registration check unrelated to traffic safety and unsupported by separate reasonable suspicion
• stop improperly prolonged to see if driver had properly registered in Nevada registry of ex-felons
• “[A]n officer may prolong a traffic stop if the prolongation itself is supported by independent reasonable suspicion.”
• “[A] traffic stop is a relatively brief encounter, in which the tolerable duration of police inquiries is determined by the 2 21-1211 seizure’s mission.” (alterations, internal quotation marks, and citation omitted)
• ex-felon registration check and dog sniff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).