The dissenting judges noted that courts across the country faced with this same challenge have come down on both sides, and contended that a question about a car’s color was far more than a simple hunch: “A stop in such circumstances cannot fairly be called an ‘arbitrary and abusive’ police practice.”
The fine details about what constitutes probable cause in traffic stops has come up numerous times before; it’s a guiding principle in DUI roadblocks, where police must either randomly stop vehicles or pause every one. Don’t be surprised if the Supreme Court itself has to weigh in someday soon on whether motorists can be considered suspicious simply for the color of their rides.
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