United States v. James Jenkins, Derrick Luther, A/K/A Derrick Hall

How courts have described this case

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• finding that officers, who had mistakenly pulled over a vehicle, acted reasonably in questioning the occupants because, when they approached the vehicle, an odor of marijuana was immediately apparent
• explaining that the officers did not violate the Fourth Amendment “merely by approaching the SUV because it would have been reasonable for them to inform the SUV’s occupants of what had happened”
• finding reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation where officers believed they saw missing rear license plate
• upholding constitutionality of traffic stop where vehicle appeared to lack two license plates, in violation of New York Vehicle and Traffic Law
• upholding constitutionality of traffic stop where vehicle appeared to lack two license plates, in violation of the same provision of New York Vehicle and Traffic Law at issue here
• finding “no error in the District Court’s determination that the initial basis for the stop of the SUV was valid because the officers reasonably believed that the SUV lacked license plates”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).