United States Supreme Court Rules that Reasonable Suspicion May Be Based on Reasonable Mistakes of Law

Published for NC Criminal Law on December 16, 2014.

Shea blogged here about State v. Heien, the case in which the court of appeals ruled that having one burned-out brake light was not a violation of G.S. 20-129 and so did not support a vehicle stop. (The stop led to a consent search of the defendant’s vehicle, which led to the discovery of drugs ... Read more

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