Court of Appeals Strictly Limits Scope of Traffic Stops

Published for NC Criminal Law on July 02, 2014.

Yesterday, the court of appeals decided a very important traffic stop case. Its ruling strictly limits officers to pursuing the original justification for a traffic stop, and prohibits officers from extending the stop even briefly for most other investigative activity. This is an area of the law that has been muddled in North Carolina, and ... Read more

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