131073P.pdf   04/16/2014  United States  v.  Carlos Martins
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-1073
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Kelly, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court erred in denying 
   defendant's post-trial motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of 
   a traffic stop; where the arresting officer could read the defendant's 
   license plate from a distance of 100 feet, he did not have probable cause 
   to believe that the partial obstruction of the plate allowed him to make a 
   traffic stop under Nebraska Revised Statute Sec. 60-399(2); the facts that 
   defendant had out-of-state plates and exited at an unlikely exit for 
   cross-country travelers did not provide the officer with the requisite 
   level of suspicion to stop defendant; as a result, the evidence seized 
   during the traffic stop had to be suppressed. Chief Judge Riley, 
   dissenting.