People v. Key

Rejecting the findings of the suppression Justice, the majority has concluded that under the circumstances of this case, the officer had a right to order the driver out of his car and to produce his license and registration. In Pennsylvania v Mimms (434 US 106, 111, n 6), the Supreme Court very recently laid down the guide: “Contrary to the suggestion in the dissent of our Brother Stevens, post, at 122, we do not hold today that ‘whenever an officer has an occasion to speak with the driver of a vehicle, he may also order the driver out of the car.’ We hold only that once a motor vehicle has…