United States v. Santos

U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · Decided 2005-04-06

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McCONNELL, Circuit Judge. This case involves a routine traffic stop with the all-too-routine denouement, a drug conviction. But it has some troubling features: seeming reliance on the defendant’s selective refusal of consent as a basis for reasonable suspicion, apparent inconsistencies between the district court’s findings of fact based on the officer’s testimony and the video tape of the traffic stop, and relatively weak…

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