United States v. Peralez

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that blended questioning prolonged a stop where the officer interpersed routine and off-topic questions for thirteen minutes after telling the driver he would receive a warning
• recognizing that “if the officer develops reasonable suspicion that other criminal activity is afoot, the officer may expand the scope of the encounter to address that suspicion”
• holding stop was delayed because of trooper’s questions, “not because of anything related to the investigation or processing of the traffic violation”
• explaining that a law enforcement officer “who observes a violation of the law has probable cause to initiate a traffic stop, and such a stop comports with the Fourth Amendment”
• explaining that a law enforcement officer “who observes a violation of the law has probable cause to initiate a traffic stop, and such a stop comports with the Fourth Amendment”
• explaining that a law enforcement officer “who observes a violation of the law has probable cause to initiate a traffic stop, and such a stop comports with the Fourth Amendment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).