United States v. Pettit

How courts have described this case

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• prolonging a traffic stop by 15 minutes to wait for a drug dog was justified because of reasonable suspicion of drug activity
• noting reluctance to find travel plans implausible even where the plans are \unusual or strange\
• finding extreme nervousness contributed to reasonable suspicion because it was a reaction not ordinarily expected during interactions with law enforcement
• accepting an officer’s “objectively reasonable” inference about a suspicious cause of the defendant’s behavior despite the defendant’s “plausible innocent explanation”
• noting defendant’s travel plans were not sufficiently implausible “to independently suggest criminal activity, [but] were worthy of consideration alongside several other suspicious factors”
• accepting an officer’s “objectively reasonable” inference that the defendant was nervous about the officer’s questioning, not, as the defendant claimed, “rattled by” a snow storm he had just encountered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).