FL1: Passenger’s detention may be extended because of RS as to driver

A passenger is stopped with the vehicle he or she was in. The length of that stop depends upon what happens with the driver and passenger, and it can be extended lawfully as to the passenger because of reasonable suspicion with the driver. Presley v. State, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 14509 (Fla. 1st DCA Sept. 28, 2016).

The owner of the home had people living with him. He called the police because they were smoking crack, and he had authority to consent to their entry at the minimum to go up the stairs, a common area, to the landing where defendant was smoking crack and had drug paraphernalia out in plain view. State v. Wooten, 2016-Ohio-6980, 2016 Ohio App. LEXIS 3829 (3d Dist. Sept. 26, 2016).*