United States Second Circuit

Even if a police officer did not subjectively observe a traffic violation, if his observations would lead an "objectively reasonable" officer to believe that a violation occurred, probable cause exists to stop the vehicle.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/03/2001
• Decided 10/12/2001
• Published 10/12/2001

Judges

• Before: MESKILL, KEARSE, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bret A. Puscheck, Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of New York (Denise E. O'Donnell, United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, of counsel), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott M. Green, Rochester, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Walter Harrell., William Clauss, Federal Public Defender's Office, Rochester, New York (Jay S. Ovsiovitch, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee Lawrence Dunham.