United States v. Oscar O. Muriel

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that police may ask questions unrelated to purpose of traffic stop so long as they do not unreasonably prolong the detention
• holding that passengers may be questioned without reasonable suspicion
• explaining that an officer conducting a valid traffic stop may ask “a moderate number of questions” even if those questions “do not concern the purpose of the stop and [] are not support by any other suspicions”
• relying on Caballes and holding that the thirteen minutes that elapsed between the initial stop and defendant providing consent to search was not unreasonably prolonged
• finding mistake by a police officer that the tailgating law utilized a two-car-length rule nevertheless supported probable cause because a law did exist prohibiting tailgating, and the facts supported a violation of the law
• “the police may ask questions that do not concern the purpose of the stop and that are not supported by any other suspicion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).