Valance v. Gaylon Wisel, Mike Reneau, Ed Pearce

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the burden to establish the lack of consent to search fell on the plaintiff, once asserted by the defendant
• holding that police officers’ alarmed reactions to a firearm spotted on the driver’s seat floor of a vehicle demonstrated their “reasonable suspicion” that the defendant “may be involved in criminal activity in addition to the traffic violation that occasioned the stop”
• finding a valid stop where officer suspected driver of being under the influence of alcohol when driver crossed the centerline twice while navigating a curve

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).