{"id":2405,"date":"2008-12-24T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T06:09:31","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"GA: Further questions during stop permissible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Further questions of a stopped motorist were valid. Hughes v. State<\/a>, 293 Ga. App. 404, 667 S.E.2d 163 (2008):<\/p>\n

Having de-escalated the traffic stop, police did not need any additional suspicion to ask another unrelated question or to request consent to search. “Even when officers have no basis for suspecting a particular individual, they may generally ask questions of that individual and request consent to search — as long as the police do not convey a message that compliance with their requests is required.” (Punctuation omitted.) Hampton v. State<\/em>. See Salmeron v. State<\/em>, supra, 280 Ga. at 736 (1). “[I]f the consent is voluntary, an officer may obtain consent to search a car following the conclusion of a valid traffic stop, without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.” State v. Sims<\/em>, supra, 248 Ga. App. at 279. Under the circumstances of this case, in which Hughes had been released from the traffic stop, the officers’ request to ask Hughes a question and their subsequent immediate requests to search Hughes’s vehicle and conduct a pat-down were permissible. See Hampton v. State<\/em>, supra, 287 Ga. App. at 898-899 (1) (affirming denial of a motion to suppress where police requested and received consent to search “immediately” after returning driver’s license and insurance card).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(See Tracey Maclin, Police Interrogation During Traffic Stops: More Questions Than Answers<\/a>, 31 Champion 34 (Nov. 2007).)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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