State v. Flores

OPINION

BOSSON, Judge.

1. This case explores three issues of current interest in our search and seizure jurisprudence. The first concerns an anonymous tip and the degree of corroboration that is necessary to justify an investigatory stop based on reasonable suspicion. The second involves consent to a vehicle search and the limits imposed on expanding the search beyond reasonable boundaries of time, place, and duration. The third issue, and the most probative for this case, explores the evidentiary consequences when a valid investigatory detention continues unreasonably and becomes a de facto…