Legal Opinion
United States v. Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 26, 1999No. Docket 98-1605PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPooler, Circuit Judge
The government appeals an October 19, 1998, order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Edward R. Korman, Judge) granting two suppression motions of defendant Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa. In a previously issued order, we reversed the rulings, and we now explain the bases for those reversals.
The district court’s first ruling suppressed the fruits of a car stop and subsequent search. This ruling causes us to revisit the familiar issue of whether a law enforcement officer’s subjective intentions can vitiate otherwise existing probable cause to stop a motor vehicle.…
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