People v. Bowles

Opinion by

Judge WEBB.

Brendlin v. California, 551 U.S. 249, 127 S.Ct. 2400, 168 L.Ed.2d 132 (2007), held that automobile passengers are seized and thus their Fourth Amendment rights attach during traffic stops. Whether a police officer violates a passenger's Fourth Amendment rights during an otherwise valid traffic stop by requesting the passenger to produce identification is the principal contention of defen dant, Deanna L. Bowles. After Brendlin, this issue is unresolved in Colorado. 1

Although the officer had made such a request without particularized suspicion of Bowles, we discern no…