Court Opinion

ID: 9494523
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:39:25.716757+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:27.083115
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JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. I would affirm the judgment of the district court on the basis of that court’s well reasoned opinion.
Once the officer delivered the violation card to Walker, the traffic stop had come to an end. The following language from the Court’s opinion in United States v. $404,905.00 in U.S. Currency, 182 F.3d 643, 648 (8th Cir.1999), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 1161, 120 S.Ct. 1175, 145 L.Ed.2d 1083 (2000), is instructive:
But once the officer decides to let a routine traffic offender depart with a ticket, a warning or an all clear-a point in time determined, like other Fourth Amendment inquiries, by objective indi-cia of the officer’s intent-then the Fourth Amendment applies to limit any subsequent detention or search.
The district court found the subsequent conversation was not consensual, and I cannot agree that this finding was clearly erroneous.