United States v. Vaughter

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the officer had reasonable suspicion to prolong the stop due to the defendant’s admission to having marijuana in the vehicle
• “It is uncontested that Lott’s admission to having marijuana in his car provided reasonable suspicion to the officers to prolong the stop.”
• “It is uncontested that [defendant’s] admission to having marijuana in his car provided reasonable suspicion to the officers to prolong the stop.”
• “Traffic stops are analyzed under the Terry v. Ohio framework because they are more akin to an investigative detention ... than a custodial arrest.” (internal citation omitted)
• the circumstances that provide reasonable suspicion to prolong the stop “must have occurred within the permissible duration of the stop for the subsequent search [based on that reasonable suspicion] to be constitutional”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).