United States v. Michael D. Sanders

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding a traffic stop was constitutional when the officer reasonably believed the individual was violating the traffic law, even though the officer’s belief about the law’s requirements may have been incorrect
• refusing “to parse the words of [a] statute in determining whether [the officer] had probable cause to stop the vehicle” because the officer had an objectively reasonable basis for believing the motorist breached a traffic law regardless of whether an actual violation existed
• refusing “to parse the words of [a] statute in determining whether [the officer] had probable cause to stop the vehicle” because the officer had an objectively reasonable basis for believing the motorist breached a traffic law regardless of whether an actual violation existed
• officer’s mistaken belief, but objectively reasonable basis for believing, 'that a traffic violation occurred supported traffic stop
• officer objectively had reasonable basis for probable cause even though, vehicle was not technically in violation of the statute
• officer objectively had reasonable basis for probable cause even though, vehicle was not technically in violation of the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).