State of Iowa v. Jayel Antrone Coleman

I respectfully dissent and would affirm the district court ruling denying Coleman’s motion to suppress, as did the court' of appeals. Until today, a police officer who lawfully stopped a motorist could ask to see his or her driver’s license, especially when the officer knew, the driver was not the car’s registered owner. Almost all low-*302ans, I believe, would find this activity completely unobjectionable and, indeed, mundane. But not the majority. Instead, our court has determined that this act of routine traffic enforcement violates the search and seizure provision of the Iowa Constitution.…