United States v. Thomas Turner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that different penalties for cocaine base and cocaine in other forms do not violate due process
• holding that officer must have reasonable and articulable suspicion to question the driver about drugs or weapons
• holding that penalty disparity between powder and crack cocaine does not violate due process
• holding reasonable suspicion “sufficient to permit the single question about the presence of drugs or weapons”
• holding reasonable suspicion “sufficient to permit the single question about the presence of drugs or weapons”
• finding that an officer had a reasonable suspicion that the suspect was engaging in criminal activity where the suspect, among other things, “was driving a car that was not registered to him or to his passenger”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).