United States v. Michael Steven Gregory

How courts have described this case

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

• defining proper inquiry by officer of detainees under the Fourth Amendment
• “The Fourth Amendment grants an officer conducting a routine traffic stop latitude to check the driver’s identification and vehicle registration . . . .”
• “[w]e have held that a brief drug scan at the end of a traffic stop does not require reasonable suspicion.”
• expansion of investigation permitted where driver said they departed from Las Vegas to Little Rock for a week and passenger said they left from Los Angeles and would return in a couple days
• positive alert by drug dog provides probable cause for search
• even a minor traffic violation creates probable cause to stop a vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).