The lack of a video goes to the officer\u2019s credibility, but here there wasn\u2019t enough to undermine his credibility. The length of the stop was reasonable. \u201cIn sum, the court finds that the troopers’ actions demonstrated a \u2018graduated response to emerging facts, [which] were reasonable under the totality of the circumstances, and did not unconstitutionally extend [Platt’s] detention.\u2019\u201d United States v. Platt, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130141 (W.D. La. August 6, 2012).*<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court finds that the inventory search in this case was conducted according to standardized procedures that sufficiently limited Aikens’ discretion in order to prevent the search from becoming a general investigatory search for incriminating evidence.\u201d This is even though the officer started off asking for consent, which was denied, and he said he was going to search the car for anything illegal, and then he corrected himself and said for things of value. United States v. Carroll, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131000 (W.D. Va. September 12, 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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