United States v. Leconie Williams, IV

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A]n officer who observes a traffic offense may have probable cause even where he has additional motives for the stop.”
• “When an officer observes a traffic offense—however minor—he has probable cause to stop the driver of the vehicle.”
• “[A] 3 police officer’s mistake of law can[not] support probable cause to conduct a stop when the underlying conduct was not, in fact, illegal.”
• “[A] police officer’s inability to identify the correct code section at the time of a stop does not undermine valid probable cause.”
• “When an officer observes a traffic offense—however minor—he has probable cause to stop the driver of the vehicle.” (quoting United States v. Hassan El, 5 F.3d 726, 730 (4th Cir. 1993))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).