opening door into traffic accidentVehicle Code, Chapter 37, Section 3705 has wording very similar to California's, and IMHO aligned with plain old good sense: Of course, lawyers can dine out quite well over the definition of "reasonable...
No it's not. See: Whren vs. U.S., and especially when you see someone with a history of criminal activity.
I don't agree. Criminal interdiction clbuttes are taught all the time and they show you what profiles have worked the best for finding criminals. As stated in Whren vs. U.S., a cop can stop any vehicle for a traffic violation regardless of the agenda of the cop.
And defense attorneys have used that very premise in court. You stop 100 cars for speeding, then stop one for a defective license plate lamp and find 5 lbs. of sugar. There is nothing legally wrong with that but they try to say that you profiled their client and make the cop look like the bad guy. That's why in criminal interdiction we stop for a broad range of offenses.
Yes, semantics and I see your point, but the cop has no choice but to act on currently written laws and arrest people for violating them. The courts and the legislators are a whole different part of the process.
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