State v. Dang

OPINION

KENNEDY, J.

{1} Police officers may not extend the scope of a traffic stop beyond the reasonable and articulable basis for the initial detention unless there arises a separate reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity. If this happens, separate articulable facts must be present, leading to a reasonable suspicion of additional criminal activity. Further investigation of newly occurring suspicions must in turn be reasonably limited to the articulable facts at hand. If the scope of investigation is not reasonably limited by the articulable facts known to the investigating…