United States v. William D. Ludlow

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “further investigative detention, which is outside the scope of a routine inquiry, may be warranted” if an agent develops “reasonable suspicion that a crime is or has been committed”
• discussing the scope of routine inquiries allowed under the interior fixed-checkpoint doctrine
• affirming district court’s denial of motion to suppress, which was based in part on a finding that the driver “did not roll [his] window all the way down,” thereby “rais[ing] the suspicion that there was an odor in the car that the driver did not want out”
• failure of driver to roll down window all the way could raise suspicion driver was trying to hide an odor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).