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Article: The scope of police questioning during a routine traffic stop: do questions outside the scope of the original justification for the stop create impermissible seizures if they do not prolong the stop?
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- Fordham Urban Law Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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INTRODUCTION
A police officer makes a routine traffic stop of a vehicle with a cracked windshield? He questions the driver about the windshield and asks for the driver's license and registration. (2) While the officer checks the documentation, he asks the driver whether he has any illegal narcotics in the car. (3) The driver says 'no,' and the officer asks for consent to search the vehicle. (4) After the driver consents, the officer discovers cocaine on the driver's side of the car. (5)
In the prosecution for the possession of cocaine, the defendant argues that his consent was tainted by the officer's question about illegal narcotics because it was ...
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