Douglas, J. The court of appeals determined that a “pretextual” traffic stop is constitutionally invalid. The court of appeals defined a “pretextual stop” as one in which a police officer “uses a minor violation of the law to make a stop which the officer would not otherwise make in order to conduct a search or an interrogation for an unrelated, more serious offense for which he does not have the reasonable suspicion necessary to…
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