CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Delinquency Matters
......Juvenile Search and Seizure
.........Reasonable Cause for Detention
............Vehicle Code Violations
7 Cards On This Topic:

No error in denying M's motion to suppress evidence of his intoxication where O acted with sufficient particularized suspicion to justify traffic stop for failing to display rear license plate.

4th Amendment permits limited warrantless searches of areas in a vehicle where identification and registration documents may reasonably be expected to be found.

Where driver failed to produce identification upon officer's demand, officer may conduct a limited warrantless search for driver's I.D. in parts of vehicle where documentation can reasonably be expected to be found.

Firearm suppression motion properly denied where M not stopped solely because he committed a minor traffic violation, but because of his unusual, suspicious behavior in gang area.

Evidence seized in lawful search incident to a lawful arrest based upon an outstanding warrant should be suppressed if police invented the ground for the traffic stop which led to warrant's discovery.

DA needn't file written opposition to M's motion to suppress DUI evidence; because supplemental stoplamp required for car, M's failure to maintain it in working order was VC violation and stop justified.

Since police stop of helmetless minor riding bicycle on sidewalk was lawful, M's admission he had gun and subsequent search and seizure also lawful.