United States Tenth Circuit

Displaying a temporary tag behind a heavily tinted rear window violates a Kansas statute requiring that licence plates appear "in a place and position to be clearly visible." Consequently, denial of a suppression motion in a prosecution for drug-related offenses is affirmed where troopers did not exceed the permissible scope of a traffic stop by issuing a citation and requesting consent for a subsequent search.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2006
• Published 05/22/2006

Judges

• McCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before McCONNELL, BALDOCK, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James A. Brown, Assistant United States Attorney (Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney, with him on the briefs), Topeka, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Michael S. Holland, Holland and Holland, Russell, KS, for Defendant-Appellant.