United States v. Santos

McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a routine traffic stop with the all-too-routine denouement, a drug conviction. But it has some troubling features: seeming reliance on the defendant’s selective refusal of consent as a basis for reasonable suspicion, apparent inconsistencies between the district court’s findings of fact based on the officer’s testimony and the video tape of the traffic stop, and relatively weak indicators of suspicious behavior. Nonetheless, doing our best to apply the standards currently prescribed by the Supreme Court, we AFFIRM.

I. FACTS

On January 13, 2003,…