Legal Opinion

Felders v. Malcom

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided June 20, 2014No. 12-4154PublishedCited by 112 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

A Utah state trooper stopped Sherida Felders for speeding while on a trip from California to Colorado. Based on Feld-ers’s demeanor and several perceived in-consistences in the stories of Felders and her passengers as to why they were traveling to Colorado, the trooper, Brian Bairett, asked to search Felders’s car for drugs. After Felders refused, Bairett called for assistance from K-9 Unit officer Jeff Mal-com to conduct a dog sniff on Felders’s Jeep. The ensuing two-hour search yielded no drugs.

Felders and her passengers, Elijah Madyun and Delarryon Hansend,…

2Cases cited45 opinions

  1. Ashcroft v. IqbalSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  2. Scott v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  3. Mitchell v. ForsythSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Malley v. BriggsSupreme Court of the United States · 1986

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3Cited by112 opinions

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  4. Quinn v. YoungCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2015
  5. Halley v. HuckabyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2018

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