MO: If the stop is valid, RS not needed to ask for consent

Defendant was stopped for not signaling, and the officer ran his DL. Three minutes into the stop he asked again “whether there was anything in the truck that he needed to know about.” Defendant consented to a search saying there were no drugs in the vehicle. Instead, the officer found everything for a meth lab other than pseudoephedrine. The consent was valid. “Thus, an officer is not required to have articulable facts to justify additional questioning unrelated to the initial justification for the stop. Rather, the issue is whether the additional questioning measurably extends the duration of the stop. In this case, it did not.” State v. McCleary, 2014 Mo. App. LEXIS 263 (March 11, 2014).