Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Cummins v. United States
Cummins v. United States, 502 U.S. 962 (1991)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1991-11-12
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- stop deemed valid because police were “doing no more than they [were] legally permitted and objectively authorized to do”
- White, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari and arguing that the Court should “address this recurring issue and ... resolve the split in the Courts of Appeals”
- “it is irrelevant whether a reasonable police officer would have made the stop but for the unlawful motive; the stop is valid ‘so long as the police are doing no more than they are legally permitted and objectively authorized to do’ ”
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C. A. 7th Cir.; and
C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 90-1628, 920 F. 2d 498; No. 91-5013, 925 F. 2d 1064; No. 91-5087, 931 F. 2d 890.