North Carolina Supreme Court Affirms Post-Rodriguez Court of Appeals Ruling in State v. Warren

Published for NC Criminal Law on March 22, 2016.

Last April, 2015, the United States Supreme Court in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), significantly limited the scope of a traffic stop. The Court ruled that an officer may not extend a completed traffic stop for any period of time, no matter how brief, to conduct a dog sniff—absent reasonable suspicion ... Read more

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