{"id":63157,"date":"2026-02-11T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63157"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:40:09","slug":"oh12-officers-reasonable-mistake-on-traffic-violation-didnt-void-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63157","title":{"rendered":"OH12: Officer&#8217;s reasonable mistake on traffic violation didn&#8217;t void stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did defendant violate the turn signal ordinance by not signaling his turn until already stopped? It doesn\u2019t matter. \u201cUltimately, though, we need not decide whether Bryant actually violated the turn-signal ordinance. Even if the answer is unclear, Officer Singleton&#8217;s stop was justified so long as he had reasonable suspicion that a violation had occurred. And he did. An officer need not be right about a traffic violation to conduct a lawful stop\u2014he need only be reasonable. A reasonable mistake of law can still constitute reasonable, articulable suspicion to justify a traffic stop.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/12\/2026\/2026-Ohio-389.pdf\">State v. Bryant<\/a>, 2026-Ohio-389 (12th Dist. Feb. 9, 2026).  Similar is United States v. Schoggins, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26841 (E.D. Okla. Feb. 10, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial court granted a motion to suppress. It was pointless to have a Franks hearing after that, so that\u2019s not an error for appeal. Weber v. State, 2026 Tex. App. LEXIS 1212 (Tex. App. \u2013 Dallas Feb. 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The misstatements aren\u2019t material to the probable cause finding. United States v. Fassero, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26414 (C.D. Ill. Feb. 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did defendant violate the turn signal ordinance by not signaling his turn until already stopped? It doesn\u2019t matter. \u201cUltimately, though, we need not decide whether Bryant actually violated the turn-signal ordinance. Even if the answer is unclear, Officer Singleton&#8217;s stop &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63162,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157\/revisions\/63162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}