Search & Seizure – Traffic Stop – Peeling Inspection Sticker

By Deborah Elkins
Published: November 10, 2008

A police officer's stop of a vehicle violated the Fourth Amendment because the officer stopped the vehicle solely because of his brief observation that the vehicle safety inspection sticker was "partially peeling," and the drugs and gun found in the car should have been suppressed, the Supreme Court of Virginia says. The en banc Court of ...

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