United States v. John Jay Hill and Malcolm Scott Hill

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a driver’s license check was within the original scope of a traffic stop based upon a traffic violation
• ruling that a traffic stop that included an officer’s heeded request that a driver sit in the officer’s patrol car was not unreasonably prolonged
• noting that an officer's credibility in making the initial traffic stop must be scrutinized, particularly when a target vehicle such as a U-Haul is involved
• noting that an officer’s credibility in making the initial traffic stop must be scrutinized, particularly when a target vehicle such as a U-Haul is involved
• holding that the totality of the circumstances, including one of the defendant’s uncontrollably shaky hands and apparent nervousness, as well as the defendants’ unusual explanation of their cross-country trip, “plainly supported a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity”
• finding that the officer had a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, which allowed him to detain a motorist in order for a drug-detection dog to conduct a sniff search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).