Is a stop by a police officer on a motor vehicle stop illegal?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Buchanan v. Beard, Civil No. 10-0423 GPC (NLS) (S.D. Cal. 2013):
is not rendered illegal merely because the officer has an improper subjective motivation at the time of the stop.16 Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 810 (1996).
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