W.D.Tenn.: Asking a series of questions during a stop didn’t unreasonably lengthen it

“Detective Redding then asked Mason whether he had anything in the Vehicle that the officers should know about, and Detective Kent asked Defendant what he was doing, where he had been, where he was going, whether he had been previously arrested, and whether he was on probation or parole. ‘An officer’s inquiries into matters unrelated to the justification for the traffic stop . . . do not convert the encounter into something other than a lawful seizure, so long as those inquiries do not measurably extend the duration of the stop.’ Arizona v. Johnson, 555 U.S. 323, 333 (2009); …. Here, there is no evidence that either of these questions measurably extended the traffic stop; instead, the record only reflects that both Mason and Defendant provided brief answers and that the length of time from the traffic stop until the search began was between three and ten minutes.” United States v. Freeman, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231322 (W.D. Tenn. Oct. 14, 2020), adopted, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 230234 (W.D. Tenn. Dec. 8, 2020).