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CA8: Inability to easily read paper transit plate was RS

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

It was objectively reasonable for the police to suspect at the time of the traffic stop that the paper affixed to the rear license plate area of the vehicle was not an official registration document from another state; as a result, the officer had reasonable suspicion to believe the vehicle did not display valid proof of registration as required by Nebraska law and the traffic stop did not violate the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Sanchez, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 15375 (8th Cir. July 13, 2009).* Officers received a call about an intoxicated man who was talking about wanting to buy meth and having a gun on street lined with bars in a college town. They talked to him, ascertained that he was an unregistered sex offender, and asked where the gun was, without Mirandizing him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).