State v. Vandenberg

OPINION

ALARID, Judge.

{1} This appeal requires us to decide whether Defendant’s constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when Defendant and his companion were detained, and thereafter subjected to a weapons pat down, following a routine traffic stop. We hold that Defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated because (1) the officers who conducted the traffic stop had completed the purposes of the traffic stop and lacked a constitutionally adequate basis for further detaining Defendant, and (2) the officers lacked a reasonable suspicion that…