Legal Opinion
The People v. Rebecca Guthrie
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 7, 2015No. 50PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Stein, J.
In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether there is probable cause to make a traffic stop for a suspected violation of law in accordance with article I, § 12 of the New York State Constitution and the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution if the justification for the stop is based upon a police officer’s objectively reasonable, but mistaken, view of the law. We conclude that where, as here, the officer’s mistake about the law is reasonable, the stop is constitutional.
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At approximately 12:15 a.m. on September 27, 2009, a police officer stopped…
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