Legal Opinion
Joseph Leon Matthews v. Commonwealth of Virginia
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided November 3, 2015No. 1654144PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUMPHREYS, Judge.
Joseph Leon Matthews (“Matthews”) appeals the ruling of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County (the “circuit court”) denying his motion to suppress the evidence that was recovered pursuant to a traffic stop. Matthews’s single assignment of error asserts that the circuit court erred in denying his motion to suppress because the officer’s actions during the stop were not reasonably related in scope to the circumstances that justified the seizure, and thus violated the Fourth Amendment, which in turn invalidated his consent to search the vehicle.
I. Background
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