Supreme Court to decide whether cops can delay traffic stop
The Supreme Court will decide whether a police officer can explicitly drag out a traffic stop until another officer with a drug-sniffing dog can arrive at the scene.
Source: nwitimes.com
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The Supreme Court will decide whether a police officer can explicitly drag out a traffic stop until another officer with a drug-sniffing dog can arrive at the scene.
Records show the K-9 unit arrived 13 minutes later, which was about 21 minutes into the traffic stop.
An officer’s prolonged traffic stop and a search of a man’s vehicle that detected illegal drugs was justified by reasonable suspicion and did not violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a split Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Monday.