State v. Duran

OPINION

MAES, Justice.

{1} This case requires us to determine whether a police officer’s questioning of a stopped motorist about her travel plans exceeded the permissible scope of a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment. We find that the questions the police officer asked the driver of the stopped car were permissible because they were reasonably related to the purpose of the stop. Because the questions were permissible, the answers to them can be considered in determining if, under the totality of the circumstances, the officer had reasonable suspicion to expand the scope of the search…