Photo: Aldeca Productions/stock.adobe.com Utah Supreme Court Changes Its Mind: Who Opens Vehicle Door During Traffic Stop Could Matter
"Despite what we said in [State v.] James, it is now clear that there can be a constitutional difference between a police officer's act of opening a car door and that same officer's request that a driver do so," according to the decision written by Associate Chief Justice Thomas R. Lee with the other four judges concurring.
October 25, 2021 at 06:19 PM
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Constitutional Law
The Utah Supreme Court last week repudiated a previous decision that said it makes no difference whether a police officer opens a vehicle door or asks a driver to do so in the course of an investigation.
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