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Supreme Court Limits The Police’s Ability To Turn A Routine Traffic Stop Into A Search For Drugs

CREDIT: Shutterstock Police cannot extend the length of a traffic stop, even very briefly, to conduct a fishing expedition to determine whether the vehicle contains drugs. Though police retain a fair amount of ability to use routine traffic stops to seek out evidence of other crimes, the thrust of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opinion in Rodriguez v.

 

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