United States v. Timothy W. Washington

How courts have described this case

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• noting that where there is a basis in state law for an officer’s actions and some ambiguity exists that caused the officer to make the mistake, it may still be objectively reasonable
• explaining prior judicial interpretations of a statute are “relevant to the objective reasonableness of the officer’s belief’
• but finding that police officer’s mistaken belief that vision-obstruction statute applied to cracked windshields was not objectively reasonable
• traffic stop is reasonable if it is supported by probable cause or articulable and reasonable suspicion that traffic violation has occurred
• but finding that police officer's mistaken belief that vision-obstruction statute applied to cracked windshields was not objectively reasonable
• instead looking at whether a mistake of law is “objectively reasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).