Legal Opinion
People v. Robinson
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 18, 2001PublishedCited by 340 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Smith, J.
The issue here is whether a police officer who has probable cause to believe a driver has committed a traffic infraction violates article I, § 12 of the New York State Constitution when the officer, whose primary motivation is to conduct another investigation, stops the vehicle. We conclude that there is no violation, and we adopt Whren v United States (517 US 806) as a matter of state law.
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People v Robinson
On November 22, 1993, New York City police officers in the Street Crime Unit, Mobile Taxi Homicide Task Force were on night patrol in a marked police car in…
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