United States v. Trestyn

How courts have described this case

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

• holding request for driver’s license exceeded scope of stop’s underlying justification
• “Once [the trooper] approached the minivan on foot, he reasonably could have observed the registration number on the minivan’s license plate.”
• “The district court never had an opportunity to consider those claims, much less develop a record on the issue.”
• “arguments raised for the first time in a motion for reconsideration are not properly before the [district] court and generally need not be addressed.” (alteration in original
• “Once Trooper Nykun approached the minivan on foot, he reasonably could have observed the registration number on the minivan’s license plate” and “should have known that [defendants] did not violate [Wyoming state law]”
• “Once Trooper Nykun approached the minivan on foot, he reasonably could have observed the registration number on the minivan’s license plate” and “should have known that [defendants] did not violate [Wyoming state law]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).