Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Villa-Chaparro v. United States

522 U.S. 926

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1997-10-14
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding that the arresting officer “acted reasonably in detaining Defendant for five minutes from the time he stopped Defendant ... and for an additional thirty-eight minutes while he waited for the canine unit to arrive.”
  • extended detention of almost forty minutes spent waiting for a drug-sniffing dog did not violate the Fourth Amendment
  • “ ‘[one] recurring factor supporting a finding of reasonable suspicion ... is the inability of a defendant to provide proof that he is entitled to operate the vehicle he is driving.’ ”

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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied.