Pretextual traffic stops are often used by law enforcement as a method to initiate a stop and search of automobiles suspected to involve criminal activity.
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The 1996 U.S. Supreme Court decision Whren v. United States widened police officer discretion in making traffic stops. Prior to Whren officers needed to be able to articulate probable cause about suspicion of drug activity if they made a traffic stop. ... "Racial Profiling and the Pretextual Traffic Stop: A Critical Look...
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A pretextual traffic stop occurs when an officer uses the suspicion of a traffic violation as an excuse to stop a vehicle for another reason. Pretext stops may still be valid even if a reasonable officer would not have made the stop.
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He filed a CrR 3.6 motion to suppress the evidence, which he claimed was seized as the result of a pretextual traffic stop. ... at 358-59. Pretextual traffic stops violate article I, section 7 of our state constitution because they are seizures without the authority of law that a search warrant would guarantee. Id.
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The author of this article observed that in addition to the usual defense challenges to the factual bases for making seizures, defendants were increasingly challenging the validity of the seizures by asserting that the officers were using traffic-related stops as pretexts for conducting investigations into other offenses.
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This is called a “pretextual stop.” 2 (You can reduce the risk of pretextual stops by driving conservatively and keeping your car “tight”: no missing lights, no loose tail pipe, no overdue registration.) These pretextual stops begin as mere traffic tickets, but can become very serious indeed, for example:
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November 1996 Pretext Traffic Stops: Whren v. United States By John C. Hall, J.D. ______ A recent Supreme Court decision reaffirms the objective ...
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Other courts said that a pretextual traffic stop occurs when a driver is stopped for a commonly occurring traffic violation for which a reasonable officer would not normally make an arrest. ... In 1995, the Ohio Ninth District Court of Appeals ruled on pretextual stops in a Medina County case.
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Timothy P. O'Neill  (John Marshall Law School) has posted Vagrants in Volvos: Ending Pretextual Traffic Stops and Consent Searches of Vehicles in Illinois (Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 40, p. 746, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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