United States v. Mark Lamond Willis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that officer’s observation of a traffic violation provided “specific and articulable facts” to justify the stop
• holding a lawful traffic stop occurred even though the defendant had parked his car before the officers made the stop
• noting that Fourth Amendment case law “require[s] that the officers have reasonable suspicion to stop a driver for traffic infractions, not that the officers issue citations”
• applying reasonable suspicion standard to a traffic stop based on readily observed traffic violations
• applying reasonable suspicion standard to a traffic stop based on readily observed traffic violations
• upholding a stop when the officer issued no traffic citations but “could have relied on the traffic violation as a justification” for the stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).