Is a Burned Out Brake Light a Basis for a Stop?

Published for NC Criminal Law on October 06, 2011.

We’ll start with a pop quiz: A police officer sees that the right brake light of a vehicle fails to illuminate when the driver applies brakes while driving down a street in North Carolina. The left brake light works. Does the officer’s observation of the malfunctioning right brake light provide reasonable suspicion that a violation ... Read more

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