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113181P.pdf 07/13/2012 United States v. Mario Riley
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-3181
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Joplin
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant's traffic violation provided
probable cause to stop his vehicle; defendant's nervous behavior,
conflicting answers and misrepresented criminal history gave the officer
reasonable suspicion that defendant was engaged in illegal activity;
questioning did not impermissibly extend the traffic stop or violate
defendant's Fourth Amendment rights; time spent waiting for a drug
detection dog was not unreasonable as the wait was unavoidable and was
not the result of a lack of due diligence by the arresting officer; after the
drug dog alerted, the officers were permitted to search the trunk of
defendant's vehicle under the automobile exception to the warrant
requirement, and the scope of the search did not violate the Fourth
Amendment.