Legal Opinion
United States v. Fort
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided January 18, 2000No. 2:99-cv-00212PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
FITZWATER, District Judge.
In this case involving a motion to suppress the fruit of a warrantless commercial vehicle regulatory inspection, the court holds that the stop was justified at its inception, and that running a warrant check on the driver was reasonably related in scope to the circumstances that justified the interference, because doing so did not extend what would otherwise have been the duration of the regulatory stop. The court therefore denies defendant’s motion to suppress. 1
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