David City Traffic Lawyer, Nebraska

... controlled substance. The principal issue on appeal is whether Louthan's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when a law enforcement officer prolonged a traffic stop for several minutes in order to deploy a drug detection dog. We ...

... Bigsby testified that while in a marked patrol car monitoring traffic on Interstate 80 in Lincoln, he noticed the eastbound van in which Draganescu was a passenger. ... It further concluded that the detention for the traffic stop and the canine sniff was reasonable in length. ...

... A traffic violation, no matter how minor, creates probable cause to stop the driver of a vehicle. ... Once a vehicle is lawfully stopped, a law enforcement officer may conduct an investigation reasonably related in scope to the circumstances that justified the traffic stop. Id. ...