{"id":63652,"date":"2026-03-20T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63652"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:59:44","slug":"ca9-failure-to-give-a-traffic-ticket-during-a-stop-is-meaningless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63652","title":{"rendered":"CA9: Failure to give a traffic ticket during a stop is meaningless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Failure to give a traffic ticket during a stop is meaningless. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2026\/03\/19\/24-7519.pdf\">United States v. Rhone<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 8131 (9th Cir. Mar. 19, 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Whether the stop was pretextual is irrelevant if the traffic stop was based on reasonable suspicion. See Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 818-19 (1996) (a traffic stop based on reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment is lawful, even if the ultimate charge was not related to the traffic stop). Also, the officers were not required to give a fix-it ticket for the traffic violation because &#8220;it [is] reasonable for the officers to view any traffic violations as inconsequential in light of [Rhone&#8217;s] arrest.&#8221; See United States v. Willis, 431 F.3d 709, 717 (9th Cir. 2005) (noting that Fourth Amendment case law &#8220;require[s] that the officers have reasonable suspicion to stop a driver for traffic infractions, not that the officers issue citations&#8221;).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to give a traffic ticket during a stop is meaningless. United States v. Rhone, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 8131 (9th Cir. Mar. 19, 2026):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretext","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63652","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=63652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63653,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63652\/revisions\/63653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}