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Over-zealous Alumni Devotion Leads to Traffic Stop

By Shari Allison

U.S. v. Orduna-Martinez, 2009 WL 884619 (4/3/09) (Published) - Kansas law did require all of the registration label on a license plate to be "clearly legible" and the defendant's Ohio State University plate frame was not cut out sufficiently enough to render the label "clearly legible," authorizing the officer's stop of the vehicle. In the course of the ruling, the 10th thoughtfully says: "the Supreme Court has made a lot reasonable." "Relatively slight obstructions of the registration decal can give rise to a proper traffic stop."

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).