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The 81-page, 17-count lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, alleges the officers carried out an unlawful and pretextual traffic stop and ...
Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), was a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision [1] that "declared that any traffic offense committed by a driver was a legitimate legal basis for a stop."
CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the ...
When police stop and search a pedestrian, this is commonly known as a stop and frisk. When police stop an automobile, this is known as a traffic stop. If the police stop a motor vehicle on minor infringements in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity, this is known as a pretextual stop. Additional rules apply to stops that occur ...
United States — pretextual stop; Maryland v. Wilson, 519 U.S. 408 (1997) — applies to passengers of car; Illinois v. Wardlow, 528 U.S. 119 (2000) — inference of suspicion from flight (can be extended to any evasive movement)
The law seeks to curb 'pretextual stops,' in which police use a minor infraction as the basis to make a stop and investigate other possible crimes.
The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the department of ...
Research shows that Black drivers are more likely to be subject to pretextual stops than their white counterparts. In many cases, these traffic stops for minor infractions have turned combative or ...