United States v. Patrick Nolan McSwain

How courts have described this case

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• holding that once “the purpose of the stop was satisfied,” an officer’s continued detention of the driver “exceeded the scope of the stop’s underlying justification”
• concluding that the officer’s violation was flagrant when he continued irrelevant questioning after determining that the driver committed no traffic violation
• holding that consent was not voluntary when obtained ‘only a few minutes’ after the illegal seizure
• holding that traffic stop should’ve ended when any reasonable suspicion of traffic infraction dissipated
• holding that reasonable suspicion of license-plate violation was 8 Appellate Case: 23-6186 Document: 110-1 Date Filed: 09/30/2025 Page: 9 “completely dispelled” when officer approached vehicle and saw that there was no such violation
• holding that an officer violated the Fourth Amendment because the reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation regarding a temporary registration sticker completely dissipated when the officer approached the car and determined the sticker was valid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).