Improper Stops: Stopping a Vehicle For a Different Reason Than the Officer Claims

Occasionally, the reason an officer claims for making a traffic stop was not the real reason. We have encountered cases where an officer will claim to have received a call from dispatch, but there was no such call. We have seen cases where the officer will claim that dispatch gave him a vehicle description that simply was not given. Without the actual dispatch recordings and dispatch logs we would never be able to win those cases. With a little extra digging we do.

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Improper Stops

• Tips or Anonymous Calls
• Mistake of law
• Failure to maintain lane
• Stopping the wrong car
• Stopping for a hunch or just felt like it

Improper Arrest

• Improperly Administered Field Sobriety Tests
• Coerced Field Sobriety Tests
• Medical-Physical Conditions
• Illegal Extension of Stop
• Videos Don't Support Arrest Report

Improper Blood Test

• Proper Request
• Statutory Requirements
• Lab Mistakes

Improper Breath Test

• Rules
• Certification
• Certification of Machine
• Interferents
• Machine Not Calibrated
• Machine Malfunction

Procedural Mistakes

• Mirandize/Read Your Rights
• Implied Consent Warning
• Witness Appearance
• Inconsistent Statements by Law Enforcement Officer
• Expert Witness